Bury the Children in the Yard: Horror Stories by Prunty Andersen

Author:Prunty, Andersen [Prunty, Andersen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: Grindhouse Press
Published: 2012-02-10T16:00:00+00:00

She woke up on the floor of Brent Johnson’s basement. No sign of the plant people were down there, just the strangely cerulean walls that now seemed comforting. Maybe she had just come down here and passed out somehow. Maybe the whole thing had been a dream.

She stood up, the aches and pains in her body telling her it wasn’t just a dream. Her throat felt scorched. She felt cold.

She walked up the stairs and through the house. The house was bare, like no one had ever lived there, like there had never been a person named Brent Johnson.

Out of the house, she continued to walk, into the snow, the cold scalding her tender skin. She didn’t bother with the sidewalk, she walked straight through the yard and up to her porch.

A box sat beneath the mailbox to the right of the door. She recognized the printed message on it. She cleared off the address label, half-expecting to see next door’s address on there. Instead, what she saw was her name and her address.

Strangely, she found herself tempted to open it. She wanted, so desperately, to know what was inside the box. But she already knew what was inside the box. She wanted to taste it. She wanted to feel it run through her. But she didn’t want to go where it wanted to take her.

Picking up the box, she marched around to the back of the house and put it into the trashcan with the address label facing down so it was just a box and nothing her parents would be too suspicious of.

Then she took a deep breath of the cold, let it fill her lungs, pulled a forbidden cigarette from the pocket of her coat and lit it, looking around at her mundane little neighborhood, all covered in snow and the first thin strands of dusk.

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