The Tale of the Swamp and the Rose

by Jake Williams

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A M/M ROMANCE, NOR DOES IT CONTAIN GRAPHIC SEX. Just in time for Halloween, a ghost story from Parker’s Bluff! On a cold night in December, Police Chief and Mayor Jason Rumpholt tells Sam, Billy, Foster, and their guide John Timber a ghost story that spans three centuries. They’re all at an abandoned hunting camp, deep in the swamp, while trying to track down an escaped and potentially dangerous mental patient. They are armed with firearms, liquor, swamp weed, and junk food. Sitting around an unlit campfire in the pitch dark Jason tells his friends a story of love, murder, and witchcraft.
Jason’s tale is told two months after the events chronicled in A Gator Tale. His involvement in the ghost story occurs while he’s in high school. He realizes that the original Parker’s Bluff settlers sins and secrets are coming back to threaten his friends and tries to unravel the mystery before anyone is hurt.
This short story is approximately seventy pages long, contains drug and alcohol use, some foul language, but no graphic sex.

78 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 14, 2014

About the author

Jake Williams lives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with his chocolate lab, Max. He is the author of Foster's Choice and A Gator Tale.

Reviews

[Jake Williams]

This is a short story in the Parker's Bluff series, a tale told in the dark and chill of a December night in the swamp.
It's a quick read that features Jason's high school years and odd events that occur on the island and on the swamp.
Jason recounts a Southern-style ghost story that I hope everyone will enjoy!
I gave this a personal four-star rating, because I know I'm rookie writer and there's always room for me to improve my writing.
Jake W