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Are You Haunted (part four)
Are You Haunted (part four) He saw daylight through shutters stripe the floors, each stripe sparkle with dust. The Drybrook place was vacant, but its owners knew the worth of it. The trust must pay for a cleaning now and then. And Guy only policed the […]
Are You Haunted (part three)
Are You Haunted (part three) Powell thought Guy’s job must be easy, though. Mostly driving around. “You don’t need anything, I’m gettin on.” This, and a Jesus lord possible, under breath as Guy turned away. He was offended. Powell wasn’t sure how he was going to […]
Are You Haunted (part two)
Are You Haunted (part two) He heard crickets, and the repeated call of a whippoorwill. And they would not have started up, he knew this much of nature, unless the storm were retreating. He heard Rohdl. “You know nothing about me. For a very long time, […]
Are You Haunted (part one)
Are You Haunted (part one) O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind Saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The […]
The Tambinder Engine (part eighteen)
The Tambinder Engine (part eighteen) She woke in the trailer. The last home she would ever have, Deenie began to believe it. Her story had kept them past time for driving the cracking asphalt, and Rory with Tirza was under a blanket, on the small square of floor. You woke […]
The Tambinder Engine (part seventeen)
The Tambinder Engine (part seventeen) Werin Dycks, aged 57, ruled suicide by drowning Amanda Allenson, aged 23, ruled suicide by drowning Lan Tran, aged 30, ruled suicide by drowning Carl Butters, aged 32, ruled suicide by drowning Fian Cornach, aged 24, ruled suicide by drowning Talley McNeil, aged 44, ruled […]
The Tambinder Engine (part sixteen)
The Tambinder Engine (part sixteen) The next sheets were lives, gathered facts as to the engine’s toll. Jennifer Salvio, Minerva Apartments, Minerva Circle, Unit A10, first home 1302 Ross-Angel Road. Final workplace, as receptionist, Building Two, Bitterroot Cooperative. Her mother was a stipender, her father had received support; both […]
The Tambinder Engine (part fifteen)
The Tambinder Engine (part fifteen) Writer B. I’m sorry I’m so late. The Head Crew are under the stresses, everyone’s been telling us magnetism’s harmless, at least because the head is shielded, so your filling’s aren’t getting pulled out or whatever. Just no one buys it, the third drowning since […]
The Tambinder Engine (part fourteen)
The Tambinder Engine A McAlley Story (part fourteen) A wooden rocking, passing the barn, what Ondine would do in her stall when her ears told her Deenie was near. Deenie, missing person to the barking dog indoors, and the cat, tail swinging up the walk. She bent and pulled him […]
The Resident (part twenty-three)
Chapter Three Tithonians Now Gemma Quill was in his kitchen. Other voices were Des and Wiss, and the one who’d come to his party… Deb, Gemma supplied, whispering did she want anything from the fridge? “No. I feel stuffed. But actually, carrot sticks.” “Des, are there […]