Ghosts, Monsters and Madmen by D. Nathan Hilliard

Author:D. Nathan Hilliard [Hilliard, D. Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Horror, Short Stories & Anthologies, Short Stories, Single Authors
Amazon: B00JH5EHWQ
Published: 2014-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

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Three nights later, Sheriff Patterson leaned back against the hood of his car on Cedar Hill and lit a cigarette. In the distance, the flames that engulfed Mercy House reached for the sky. No hint of emotion showed in his flat eyes as he took a long drag of smoke. The paperwork detailing the investigation into the fire and its results lay on his front seat inside the cruiser, next to a dowel rod wrapped in a small white flag and two empty gasoline cans. He would get around to signing it and turning it in when an appropriate amount of time passed.

Bobby Ogden was still missing, and he knew the boy wouldn’t be turning up. The Sheriff found the little flag on the floor of a third floor bathroom. Les had been forced to kick the door in to find it, because of the board shoved up under the doorknob to block it. No other trace of the young daredevil remained.

“Icarus,” the sheriff muttered. But he knew that didn’t quite fit right. Icarus, in his youth and exuberance, flew too close to the sun and melted his wings. Bobby had done something different. Led by his sense of adventure, and the youthful need to prove himself, Bobby had wandered too close to the shadows of the world…and they reached out and caught him.

Les wondered if the Greeks had come up with some sort of myth for that too. They probably did, he figured. The Greeks were pretty smart guys. And everybody had their Anna Kragers.

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