What Won't Take Paint
Four bodies have come through Croy & Son with the same mark on them, and Dinah is the only one in Cawley who has ever gotten out a tape measure. The town has nine years left before the ground takes it.
Short story collection
A collection of short stories about the unexplained, the unusual and the unexpected.
I have a very active brain and constantly come up with "what if," "wouldn't it be cool if," and "I wonder what would happen if..." thoughts. Some tend to mix into other thoughts and those tend to turn into some weird ass anomaly of a story.
These are some of those stories.
Four bodies have come through Croy & Son with the same mark on them, and Dinah is the only one in Cawley who has ever gotten out a tape measure. The town has nine years left before the ground takes it.
Ruthann Prosser weighs gravel trucks at a quarry outside Mitchell, Indiana, and six days ago something came back that everybody else gets to lose. The trouble isn't what she finds in there. It's what she can't find.
A collision-shop estimator takes a call at work from a man who uses his full name and then says he's Kelvin. Forty years earlier, a fifth-grade classroom made Roy say out loud that Kelvin had never existed.
A Dublin trading-estate dealer takes in a strange boy who knows things he shouldn't, and discovers that the books being balanced aren't only his own.