JEFF ARMANDO Jeff hadn’t been sure what to expect beyond the stairs. As they’d come through the doorway, Jeff had remembered a sermon Father Salat…
a novel of horror by Dee Emm Elms
JEFF ARMANDO Jeff hadn’t been sure what to expect beyond the stairs. As they’d come through the doorway, Jeff had remembered a sermon Father Salat…
JEFF ARMANDO Jeff once again didn’t bother to properly park the mail truck. He just stopped it in the midst of the First Step Church…
EMMA ALBRECHT The woman in purple tried to keep calm. Given the circumstances? That wasn’t easy. She tried to reach out beyond walls she couldn’t…
EMMETT BEERY Emmett landed right on Hilda’s arm – the one holding onto the knife, as he’d intended. He’d jumped down from the trees above,…
RICK BOYLE RICK BOYLE Rick didn’t like cops. Really didn’t like them. Didn’t trust them. Didn’t want to be around them, even. Whatever was going on with them…
JAY REDWING “So whaddya think he’s gonna do to Mr. Marsh?” Jay asked CJ. “Be a dick,” came CJ’s simple answer. She reached up to…
MICKEY LADDOW Mickey walked for almost an hour before he stepped off Dog Run Trail near its end; then, he knelt behind the cover of…
MICKEY LADDOW Mickey stuffed the cell phone into his pocket. He’d bought it at Sweet’s Drugs and had paid cash for it. Of course, Mr.…
JAY REDWING Even after Jay had coughed out what he presumed had to be the last of the pond water, he seriously felt like total…
JAY REDWING Jay and CJ arrived at the front of a path that led into a large grove of black cherry trees. This was the…