"A surfeiting of terror soon makes terror a cliché." -Richard Matheson, "I Am Legend" *** Dora's ghost and Jill's ghost left the basement at midnight, dragging chains all the way up the apartment building's thirteen floors. The chains were Dora's idea. "If we're going to haunt people, we should have chains," she said. Jill thought it was silly, but she di...
Little One unwrapped each dress and laid them on her bed. This was more clothes than she had in her entire life. Little One picked up the simple black dress. It was her favorite. She slipped off the short skirt and shirt she had worn home with Daddy and held the black dress to her breasts and looked in the tall mirror on the wall. Little One did not recogniz...
Oakmont had spent $14,000,000 to expand its municipal water park, now renamed "Water Nation." The Husseys from Riverdale, about seven miles away, didn't mind paying the extra money for a family pass. Thirty something, very generously endowed, Joyce Hussey lay with her husband Fred in side by side pool chairs as their two young children splashed with other yo...
The Women's Wrestling Network's training facility was going to be like Chavo (Guerrero)'s gym, Jennifer assumed. Older than not only her, but her parents, with paint and ancient fight posters peeling off the walls. Posters which, like everything around them, would smell like sweat, cigars, and men. None of which bothered her, of course, as it was what the ad...
***Sometimes what you've got to do is go back to your roots. She'd tell you that. If you asked, that is. She's old, but her kind doesn't measure age the way that we would. If you asked, she'd answer honestly that she feels the same as she did at twenty-four or so. What were you doing at twenty-four, assuming that you've reached that age? If you asked, s...
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June 2020 So how has everyone's quarantine been? Fun? Productive? Anxiety-inducing? Yeah that sounds about right. I myself have been trying to keep busy. One of the many projects that I have on my list at the Lodge (which I wrote in the early days when I first inherited the house and have been slowly working my way through ever since) was to finally go down...
Daddy was already out of bed when Little One woke up. She barely remembered him kissing her, wondering if had been a dream. She could smell toast and coffee. The morning air was chilly and she realized her robe was across the hall, in her closet. She slid slowly out from under the covers and into the cold air. Her nipples were hard and she could feel goose b...
Her: It was only natural that, as children, we became friends. Our parents had been best of friends; long before either one of us had been so much as a thought. As children, we were together on family vacations, holidays, etc. It was certainly easier to get one babysitter, than were two. We soon learned that we were more entertaining ourselves than was the...
Hunting season was almost over. One more day. I had guided so damn many city slickers this year, I was looking forward to some rest and quiet. Not having to answer stupid question or trying to stop them from shooting themselves or someone else had been hell. I'm somewhat of a loner anyway. Crowds bother me. Make me feel trapped, almost suffocating. The last...