Thaddeus Howze's Blog, page 8
August 6, 2013
A Man Who Wasn’t There (6)
I’ve always hated the dark. Things hide there. Terrible, clawed things, often hungry for human flesh. Okay, not always but if you don’t want there to be, count on them having the biggest claws around. For that reason, I carry a small torch, waterproof, shockproof, tough as nails, custom-made like everything else I own. Yes, […]
July 28, 2013
A Man Who Wasn’t There (5)
Well, there is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I knows I’m one – The Animals I could smell a number of different foods in the coolness of the summer morning. My pace was constant and brisk but not […]
July 25, 2013
A Man Who Wasn’t There (4)
A Man Who Wasn't There (4) Henri Macafee settles into his new life as Carl Winters. He is surprised by his feelings for Carl's wife Nina. His darker urges return along with a fragment of his powers.
July 23, 2013
A Man Who Wasn’t There (3)
Dominique LaStrade was a vital woman in her seventies. Smooth-skinned and midnight black, only the tiniest crows feet in the corner of her eyes and slight frown lines in the corner of her mouth revealed her true age. Whispers of the source of her ever-present beauty were varied from a quality diet to dark magic […]
July 22, 2013
A Man Who Wasn’t There (2)
A Man Who Wasn't There (2) Clifford Engram, cursed operative of the Agency, a paranormal investigative group is assigned to a case his office calls the Locked Door Strangler. Murders have been taking place across the country all bound together by their unique signature, the women are killed without sign of entry or exit. Engram is forced to return to the first place such murders occurred back in the 1950s, New Orleans.
July 21, 2013
A Man Who Wasn’t There (1)
Yesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn’t thereHe wasn’t there again todayI wish, I wish he’d go away… When I came home last night at threeThe man was waiting there for meBut when I looked around the hallI couldn’t see him there at all!Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!Go […]
July 14, 2013
An Uncivil War in America
My name is Shaun McDaniels. I used to be a proud lieutenant in the US military, back when we had one. Now I am just one more prisoner in a concentration camp looking into the night, waiting for my last sunrise. I am about to be executed for my participation in the greatest social crime […]
July 12, 2013
Countdown at the Memory Palace (3)
Our family’s house was built on a hill. On the back side of that hill is a canyon where other rich people lived happily, thinking they were buying some of the safest land in the world. Never too much rain, snowfall happened but nothing you couldn’t dig yourself out from, summers never hotter than eighty […]
July 11, 2013
Countdown at the Memory Palace (2)
“Melissa. You’ve got to wake up.” My brother’s voice was distant like I was hearing him in a dream. A pleasant dream, something far away from how good I was feeling at the moment. I was dreaming I was at the beach, someplace warm, with the sun baking my already golden brown skin, a more […]
July 10, 2013
Countdown at the Memory Palace (1)
I underwent the surgery to remove half my brain when my epilepsy became my full time job. The surgeons told my parents they were in touch with a technology firm who was interested in my case and wanted to present a proposal. My parents went to the meeting but didn’t tell me at the time. […]
