No Hope for the Hopeless at Kings Park

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Three stories that stand alone, yet are connected through the characters and their location. The Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island operated from 1885-1996 and has stood abandoned ever since. Many of its buildings have since been demolished, but there was a time when this was one of the main asylums on Long Island. In the first story we follow a troubled young girl named Amanda, who is admitted to the Female Adolescent Unit during the 1960s. Her time at the hospital is a dramatic change for her with both good and terrible experiences and consequences. The second story is based on the popular local urban legend of Mary Hatchet. It begins during the 1970s and spans into the 1980s as Mary is admitted after committing a heinous crime. Learn through her eyes how she deals with spending her life at an asylum. The final story is set after the hospital is already abandoned, although we are taken down a trip through memory lane as the protagonist struggles to regain his lost memories. All three stories are wrapped up neatly by the end of this final tale, which goes back to the 1950s and brings us back up to the present.