“Happy Birthday Mahjouba. I hope someone gets you the new phone I saw you looking at last week.”
-Love X
Undead
Zombies, ghosts, vampires, you know the drill.
A 400 year old message in a bottle is addressed to me
Last year my wife Janis and I were walking on the beach near our house. We’ve been married almost twenty years and still hold hands wherever we go, so my first awareness of the bottle was when she started racing ahead and dragging me across the sand.
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The Fourth Horseman
Part one:
There’s a stretch of ground near my hometown that everyone says is cursed. Past the lamppost that only flickers between midnight and 1 AM — past the gutted remains of the house which has burned down four times, never to be rebuilt again — through the lingonberry bushes that are ripe all year; there you’ll find it. A patch of fine powdered dirt hidden in a copse of birch trees. The same rich earth that the rest of the verdant wilderness thrives on, although no grass or flowers or even the hardiest weed can be seen struggling through this blighted space.
Clowns must not frown
When you made the worst mistake of your life, did you know it at the time? Or not until later? I don’t think my wife could have known what would happen when she hired clowns for my daughter’s birthday party, but that doesn’t make it any easier to bear.
Letters from my dead wife
The worst night of my life wasn’t the night of my wife’s death. The worst night was every night since.
This town doesn’t exist on any map
Take the I-87 north from Queensbury, Vermont. Then the 28 up through North Creek. Keep going, if you want to take the route that I did. Keep going, and you’ll pass right through the town that doesn’t exist on any map.
The same hitchhiker was waiting at every stop for the last 100 miles
Ever start dating someone where everything is going a little too well, so you start worrying for no reason what-so-ever? No-one could be that perfect, and even if they were, then there’s no way they would look twice at you. The only logical explanation is that they aren’t as perfect as they pretend to be, which leaves you playing detective trying to figure out the catch.
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