Valley of the Scarecrow by Gord Rollo

Author:Gord Rollo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction
ISBN: 0843963344
Publisher: EnemyOne
Published: 2010-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Travis and Timothy Skyler weren’t due into work at Carlton Auto until noon today, and the twins had spent most of Wednesday morning talking about the future. Or at least Tim certainly had been. Travis had been forced to do all the listening, his brother fully cranked up and building steam by the minute. Even now, he was pacing back and forth like a caged tiger out front of the trailer home their father had left to them after his untimely death.

“I’m telling you, Bro,” Tim said. “This is it, the one we’ve been dreaming about all these years. The hoax to end all hoaxes.”

“I don’t know. The Reverend of Rock Creek sounds a bit corny to me. I thought I liked it but—”

“Nah, forget that name. That’s old news. I got a better one.”

“What?”

“Well, think about it for a minute. Those broads that were at the garage said this whole area used to be called Oak Valley, right?”

“If you say so. I wasn’t—”

“And they said the villagers didn’t kill Reverend Miller…they strung him up on a cross in a church out in the middle of the fucking cornfield, right?”

“That’s what you keep telling me, yeah. What about it?”

“Come on, man, think. Strung up on a cross…cornfields? What does that make you think of?”

“I don’t know…scarecrows?”

“Yes! Now you’re with me, Bro. We’re gonna start calling this place Valley of the Scarecrow and the woods north of here are ground zero, dude. We’re gonna plaster this all over the Web. Just think what we can do with a supercool legend like that? I can see it already: Yea though you walk through the Valley of the Scarecrow…ye SHALL fear his evil! It’s perfect. Don’t you just freakin’ love it?”

Travis had to admit he liked what he was hearing. Valley of the Scarecrow had an awesome ring to it and when they tied in the spooky story of the murdered holy man, this thing might really have legs. It was certainly better than anything they’d ever come up with in the past, that was for sure. “It’s fantastic. The only problem I see is it’s not our legend, it’s those campers’ you talked to.”

“Exactly. And that’s what makes it all the more perfect.”

“I don’t get it.”

“It’s their story, Travis, so they’re naturally going to believe it. That one broad’s grandfather supposedly lived there for God’s sake. He told her it was all true.”

“Which it probably isn’t.”

“Of course it isn’t. All these damn legends are bullshit, but we’re going to sneak up there and bring this one to life for those campers. They think it’s all true and after we’re done fucking with them they’ll be even more sure. They’re gonna run back home and start telling other people what they think they saw up here, which is exactly what we want. It’s how the story spreads, right?”

“Others will eventually start coming here to check it out.”

“You got it.”

“What do you mean, ‘fucking with them’? What are we gonna do?”

“Aha! That’s the fun part.

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