The Little Woods: A haunting supernatural thriller (Gothic Horror Book 1) by A.G. Mock

Author:A.G. Mock [Mock, A.G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Epoch Thrillers
Published: 2021-02-23T00:00:00+00:00

Eleven 1995

STANDING IN SILENCE at the bottom of the neighborhood, the rain continued to pelt Bryan and Ian until it soaked their clothes completely.

Bryan tugged lightly on his brother's arm.

“C'mon. We’re getting drenched. Let’s get back.” He lowered his head to try and make contact with his brother's distant gaze across the fields. “Ian, it’s really coming down now. We can talk more, back at the house.”

He was surprised to find how loud he had to shout to be heard above the rain. Still Ian did not hear, or cared not to acknowledge that he had. Something in the distance had caught his eye and he was staring there, emptily. Beyond the fields. Into the woods.

“Hey!” Bryan interjected as he forced himself between his brother’s focus and whatever it was out there that had captured his attention. “Hey, you with me or what? I’m heading back.”

He started walking away, back towards the main part of the neighborhood where his house would be dry and warm.

Ian looked up, his eyes red and sore. Standing motionless he flatly answered: “No.”

Bryan turned.

“Let’s get back. C’mon Ian.”

“No.”

“Ian!” He trotted back to his brother, shielding his eyes from the sharply piercing rain. “We’ll talk about it at home. Please.”

“It’s not that simple, Bryan. Don't you understand? It’s not that fucking simple. I saw our parents die. I watched it all—d’you get it yet? I saw every detail, every reaction . . . the look in their eyes.”

His voice was flat and even now and indicated no further emotion. His mind would not allow it; could not accept it. Simple as that.

The recollection played for him in his head as he spoke of it. Having played it over and again so many times in his mind, it was becoming little more than a movie; cinematic evidence of something happening to two people he felt he should know, simply felt he did not.

He could not.

“I saw Mom smiling. She was laughing about something Dad had said, and then out of nowhere, she's screaming. She's screaming, Bryan. And the truck. And that horrible sound of crunching metal . . . .” Behind the cloud of his eyes something flickered. “I actually saw them die, Bryan. I saw it. Hours before it happened.”

A small tear traveled down Bryan’s left cheek but was lost amongst the streaks of rain doing the same.

“And I saw Matt there, Bryan. I saw Matt there!”

“No. I know where you're going with this. But it was just an accident,” Bryan refuted, the rain streaming down his face, in between his lips as he spoke. “A terrible, awful accident.”

“How can you be so sure? I'm telling you, Matt was there.”

“Only in your dream, Ian. You saw it, yes, I believe that. I know that is true. And that sight can be a disturbing thing. But you’ve had this kind of thing before—we both have. It’s something we can’t control. It’s not really ours to control.”

A small cleft in the darkness of clouds overhead opened to a shaft of sunshine.

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