“Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Nov
6
A little background. Before there was even a Lance Manion churning out flash fiction, there was a desire to write. This desire manifest itself with a completed full-blown horror novel called Squirmers. A novel that was written and housed on a computer that soon after the last word was typed decided to crash, taking Squirmers […]
Nov
10
Ever so briefly she was in that place between dreaming and being awake and heard the voice clearly. “Even the innocent. Especially the innocent.” Then she was wide awake. She didn’t remember the dream in any detail and she had the feeling that she should leave it at that. Dana Eggar lay in her bed […]
Nov
9
The next morning Nap picked up the phone and called his assistant. “Listen Dan, I need you to look into the word Walcott. What it means and if there is anything significant about it.” Dan, always excited to be of service, responded with an eager “You got it Nap!” Less than an hour later Nap’s […]
Nov
8
The groundskeeper at Walcott’s Rolling Hills Cemetery has a secret. Other than, of course, that there were no hills without a hundred miles of Rolling Hills Cemetery. No, his secret was that every day he was privy to a supernatural show. For the first few months it terrified him, but eventually it just became part […]
Nov
7
It was somewhere in her mid-thirties that Dana Eggar gave up on her dream of meeting someone special, settling down and raising a family. It was also about this time that she completely devoted herself to teaching. She had been a 5th grade teacher at Walcott Elementary for the last 12 years but it was […]
Nov
6
Prelude (hundreds of years ago) “Leave none alive.” That was what his father, the chief of the Kaskaskia Indians, had said to him. So here he was, creeping through the darkness with seventy of their strongest warriors. They moved silently through the forest, more shadows than men. Each filled with a mixture of adrenaline […]
