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Are You Haunted (part fourteen)
Are You Haunted (part fourteen) “You’ll figure local youngsters, playing pranks on the old watchman. I’ll tell you how Mr. Doyle described the ghost to me.” He stood like a preacher, his small flock with upturned faces waiting for him to speak. But Summers himself waited, […]
Are You Haunted (part thirteen)
Are You Haunted (part thirteen) Rohdl handed his empty bottle to Isobel, and left them. Isobel tossed the bottle through the car’s open window. Powell said, “Mister… I guess I don’t know your name.” The stranger had got a long friendly ways into the conversation. “No, […]
Are You Haunted (part twelve)
Are You Haunted (part twelve) “Think about it, Dennis,” he urged. “Guy has nothing to lose, does he? He’s the only one who knows what goes on out here. Suppose it’s storming, and he’d just as soon stay home? He gets paid anyway. He knows the […]
Are You Haunted (part eleven)
Are You Haunted (part eleven) He saw the tree he’d been watching for…the trunk looked dead, but a living branch clawed the sky, dripping pink flowers. Just here was the way up. He could see sunrays cut the missing mortar of the chimney bricks. “What are […]
Are You Haunted (part ten)
Are You Haunted (part ten) They had buried their secrets in the mill. Carted away in the aftermath had been nearly all the proofs, and little might be rooted up today, but the house…he believed they still did things there. Mr. Guy’s friend, who wore the […]
Are You Haunted (part nine)
Are You Haunted (part nine) At a grandmotherly pace Powell drove, thinking about Lloyd Guy’s grapevine. The Big Chief would know already what they were up to. But maybe… Isobel cocked her head at his glance aside. Tovey said: “Eyes on the road, Kenzie. Trust me.” […]
Are You Haunted (part eight)
Are You Haunted (part eight) They ate hamburgers, hash browns, tomato soup, the Crown grown redolent of coffee and hot grease. It was eleven, five after; a lunch whistle had blown, and seven or eight customers had filed in. Isobel asked Tovey, “How much did she […]
Are You Haunted (part seven)
Are You Haunted (part seven) It was foolish, and dangerous, maybe, to hide. Guy had the girl…and she’d shut him up, whatever she said back when he raised his voice to her. She didn’t look to Powell like she cared whether Guy tried to run her […]
Are You Haunted (part six)
Are You Haunted (part six) “Well, then, I’ve wasted my education. You have learned better things listening to the dreams of factory workers.” “Social approval is the only model of ethics known to the average person. To be allowed in, or to be kept out. And […]
Are You Haunted (part five)
Are You Haunted (part five) The door sat too low for anyone to walk through upright. It bore traces of whitewash, stains of algae… He believed Guy now. He had expected some trick, some way the Big Chief would show him up for a thief, pretending […]