Wednesday, January 7, 2009
NIGHT WALKERS - (3) RESCUE
THREE - RESCUE A shadow appeared at the bedroom window. Tom knew that the shadow belonged to a wendigo, a very real creature that usually found enough food in the forests to survive the winter, but not this year. They had a voracious appetite for animal flesh, or human flesh if need be, and yet...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009
NIGHT WALKERS - (2) RESURRECTION
ONE - THE RESURRECTION Tom Black Crow listened to the January wind moaning between the logs of his self-built cabin and watched the candle at his bedside flicker. He knew the flicker was being caused by more than the wind. His two husky dogs, safe and warm in the attached shed, were barking and...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
NIGHT WALKERS - (1) - PROLOGUE - FEAR
PROLOGUE - THE FEAR The cattle in the heated barn were unsettled and restless. This had been going on every night now for over a week, and their restlessness was an unstoppable fear. It was the same thing on farms throughout the region. It was like this when winters were extremely cold and snowy,...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
A SPECIAL STAR FOR A SPECIAL TREE
TWO - A MONARCH'S CROWN No one that is except for Mr. Crow. A sudden thought flashed through his pea-sized brain and he flew off with renewed strength in his wings. ***** Christmas Eve came two nights later. The sky overhead was crystal-clear and alive with myriads of twinkling stars. A full moon...
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
A SPECIAL STAR FOR A SPECIAL TREE
(just a little simple fiction story that actually came to mind about twenty years ago, but never got penned properly) ONE - THE OLD MONARCH The old fir tree stood taller than any other tree in the great northern forest. No one knew for certain just exactly how tall the tree was, but educated guesses...
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
GHOST DRIVE - NINE - "JUSTICE IS SERVED"
JUSTICE IS SERVED Alphonso didn’t even have to keep his foot on Lucille’s accelerator. The car was a being in itself, intent on its own revenge. After all, the Beach Boys had never written any songs about bat-winged Impalas. Jack Muggins turned and saw the approaching Impala, the Impala that at that...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
GHOST DRIVE - EIGHT - "STRADDLING TWO DIMENSIONS"
STRADDLING TWO DIMENSIONS Justin watched from the pit area, feeling quite at home with the ghosts as Alphonso held back for the first few laps. There were fifteen cars in the race, among them, Jack Muggins in his black GTO and Jerry Lee in his rusted out Plymouth that had no color left. Because of...
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
GHOST DRIVE - SEVEN - "NOT A GHOST OF A CHANCE!"
NOT A GHOST OF A CHANCE! Al phonso Garibaldi had replayed the race so many times in his ghost of a mind, he smelt rubber now when he thought it over yet again. He saw it all so clearly, just as it was that Championship Day in August of 1962... He was more drunk than sober, but he knew the track well...
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Friday, October 31, 2008
GHOST DRIVE - SIX - "SKULLDUGGERY"
SKULLDUGGERY “Alphonso, you mean you’re actually gonna race..tonight..in this rain? What the hell happened the last time you guys raced?” -----“Skullduggery in its highest form is what happened!” Alphonso practically shouted. “I was drunk as a skunk by racetime, and that didn't help matters at all....
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
GHOST DRIVE - FIVE - "WHENEVER YOU"RE READY"
"WHENEVER YOU'RE READY" Justin was soaked to the skin in short order as they made their way towards the cemetery. Alphonso didn’t really have any skin to worry about. The wind and rain went right through him. The closer they got to the cemetery, the more certain Justin became that he heard shrieks...
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