The Stone Man and Other Weird Tales by Micah Castle

Author:Micah Castle [Castle, Micah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthologies, Fiction, Horror, Lovecraftian, Short Stories, Weird
ISBN: 9781520303581
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

VII

Monday came and to his relief, the shadow was there, kneeling on the church’s bell tower. As quickly as Grant could move, he ran to the porch’s railing, leaned over, and zoomed in with his binoculars. He moved his vision up towards the creature’s head, but as soon as he did, the shadowy figure abruptly flew up into the sky.

The anger Grant held at bay on Friday came back immediately. In a flash of frustration, Grant gripped the binoculars with his sweaty hand, lifted them over his head, and slammed them down against the wooden banister. Over and over again he smashed the binoculars against the railing, until the glass on the inside shattered, and the plastic began to crack and break in his hand. He glared down at the street, his chest heaving and his reddened face covered in perspiration.

“Goddammit! Again!” He shouted, as he chucked the remnants of binoculars to his feet.

His eyes locked on the remains of the binoculars, and his nails dug into the banister. He tried to simmer the bubbling rage by thinking of anything else, like his wife or the scenery before him. While he did so, a noise echoed above and behind him. To Grant, it sounded like a bird landed on the porch’s metal roof, and that’s what he assumed it was when he turned to look. But there was no bird atop of the metal roof — no, it was not a bird of any kind.

It was the unknown figure, the shadowy thing, the creature he longed to see in the mornings, perched, hunched over, glaring down at him.

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