| Home Sweet Home |
[30 May 2009|01:08am] |
It had been a long drive from Nacogdoches, Texas, 17 hours to be exact. Jeb drove all of the distance in one day, from his sister’s house to his new home that he purchased a couple of weeks ago in Chicago. At 3 o’clock in the morning without the GPS navigation unit he might have had a difficult time finding his way into the neighborhood.
( Diesel Powered Toy )
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| The Body |
[30 May 2009|07:35pm] |
Erica thought the woman must have been pretty once; she could tell, even looking this way.
Standing at the entrance path to the Robinson Woods Forest Preserve in Harwood Heights, she shifted from foot to foot and listened for the oncoming sirens. Behind her was a clearing with a large memorial stone engraved with the names of the family that had once lived there; someone had pressed a shock of bloody feathers to the back of the stone. Unsure of whether it was meant to be a tribute to those who had lived and died there, or just some kids playing at blood magic, Erica had left it be. It wasn't why she was there, after all.
Rumor had it the woods were haunted, though the same could be said about just about any Forest Preserve in and around the city. The weather had been in an upturn and it had seemed a good day to go poking around the woods, so Erica had spent the morning trying to get her Jeep running and once it roared to life, had set out for the forest in search of wild mushrooms, herbs, even some decorative stones... and hoping just a little bit to hear the phantom drums that so many people talked about.
What she found there was nothing like what she had expected.
( Death Among the Daisies )
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