The saying goes: When one door closes, another opens. But that second door isn't always what it seems as we learn in Tim Law's flash fiction The Countdown.

Timothy Law is a writer of fantasy, horror, detective and general fiction from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge. Currently working at the Murray Bridge Library in the role of Library Manager he has dreamed since high school of becoming a fulltime author. His stories can be found at http://somecallmetimmy.blogspot.com.au/ and on other platforms. He is extremely excited about being a part of the Kaidankai project. This will be his first story that will be published simultaneously in both text and audio.

The Countdown is read by Michael Rhys, a Tokyo-based voice actor and writer and teller of short tales. You can find more of his varied work at http://www.rhys.exposed.

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