[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":17},["ShallowReactive",2],{"story-the-lantern-at-hollow-creek":3},{"slug":4,"title":5,"genre":6,"publishedAt":7,"preview":8,"keywords":9,"paragraphs":14},"the-lantern-at-hollow-creek","The Lantern at Hollow Creek","Mystery","2026-10-20T00:00:00Z","Every night at midnight a lantern glows on the far bank of Hollow Creek, though no one has lived there for forty years.",[10,11,12,13],"lantern","creek","ghost","village",[8,15,16],"Mara first saw it the autumn she turned twelve, from the attic window where she was supposed to be asleep. It did not flicker the way a candle does. It hung perfectly still, a small amber coin pressed against the dark.","By the third night she had decided she would cross the creek. By the fourth, she had found the old footbridge under the willows, and the lantern had begun, very slowly, to move toward her.",1792611238711]