Coming of Age: 3 Novellas by Douglas Clegg

Author:Douglas Clegg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: gods, road trip, paranormal, coming of age, gothic, purity, teen angst, mummy, Horror, attraction, supernatural, monsters, Thriller, teen, sociopath, novellas, collection, words, omnibus, aztec, suspense, friendship, roadside attraction
ISBN: 9780985050542
Publisher: Alkemara Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The rain had slowed to a steady but light sprinkling. The lightning was off in a distant sky, barely lighting the path from the old church.

“Okay, now, here’s what we do,” Dash said.

“What’s all this?” Mark said.

“Huh?”

“‘Huh?’ You planned this,” Mark said. “I know you did. What is all this? The church. The crash. Huh?”

“Come on, Marco, I told you, we’ll have a little fun.”

“It’s not fun. It’s the opposite of fun. Fun would be the party. Fun would be anywhere but here.”

They walked out among the graves. Mark kept the flashlight on the ground to avoid any rocks and stones.

“She’s a bitch, you know that? Don’t let her fool you with all that Latin shit. She spent half of high school thinking that guys like you and me are less than toads, so don’t suddenly get all sugary just because she shows you her rack.”

“Maybe we are less than toads, Dash. Maybe all this Nowhere crap makes us warts on toads.”

“Blasphemy.” Dash reached over and slapped him hard on the face.

It stung. Mark reached up and touched his cheek.

“Tonight is the night.” Dash said grabbed him by the elbow, and pulled him close to him. The flashlight fell from Mark’s hand. Dash’s breath was all beer. “Look, you’ve known since you were thirteen that you were going to be part of this. You knew. And tonight is the night. Just like in the book. It’s the Night of Lifting the Veil. It is nearly midnight. It is midsummer’s night. The shortest night of the year. The night when the veil between our world and the world of the Nowhere is thinnest.”

Mark laughed. “Come on, Dash. Come on.”

He pulled away from Dash, walking ahead on a narrow, scraggly path between gravestones. “Get real.”

Then, Mark thought he saw something before him – some shape that was all shadow, and he saw that at the edge of the graveyard, like a gate, there were people standing there, in long coats or cloaks, he wasn’t sure, but he could see them.

He heard Dash groan behind him.

Sound of sudden movement.

Mark was about to turn around to see what was wrong, when something hit him hard on the side of the head, and he was out.

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