The Calling in the Pines – Short Story
Something in the pines calls to yet another denizen of a small town.
Something in the pines calls to yet another denizen of a small town.
CONTENT WARNING: animal death, people death, non-graphic descriptions of gore
In which a girl talks to something her predecessors left in a box, and things go about as well as you’d expect.
The lake had turned a much colder temperature than Peggy considered swimmable, so here she was with her girlfriend sitting in a kiddie pool with several cans of soda and miscellaneous other snacks, pretending that they were able to actually throw a pool party. It must’ve been a strange sight; two grown women sitting in a comically small pool with their knees pulled up to their chests, like something out of a cartoon. “I’m not ready for summer to be…
Sometimes your close off your heart, and sometimes your heart closes itself off.