Kevin and Jesse run, pushing the bike through the snow, counting to five together and skidding to a stop just before the invisible barrier between their yard and the rest of the world. They release the bike at the last moment and its momentum takes it from there. It doesn’t get far, the snow slowing it down. It falls to the ground just inside the barrier.
Garden Grove: 6 Vandals Strike Again – Dave by LV Gaudet
Dave almost cried himself while he visited some of the men he’d worked with, spending long hours labouring and joking, the casual after work Friday beers shared, and now looking like death hovered within reach.
23 The Woods – Henry and June (1985) by LV Gaudet
June steps into the kitchen to see two cereal bowls on the table. She is about to call out to the boys, Kevin and Jesse, over the bowls left on the table, but she stops. The reality of the past two days crashes down on her like a sledgehammer, making her stagger and nearly fall with sorrow and loss. Her knees weak, she starts trembling, her eyes burning with the tears that fill them.
Garden Grove: 6 Vandals Strike Again – Stanley by LV Gaudet
The large sign at the entrance announcing the coming of sleek and stylish homes and the promise of country-city living in the new Garden Grove Meadows development sported a new and rather rude crudely drawn caricature of what appeared to be intended as the foreman overseeing the job.
Those Eyes by LV Gaudet
As I stand in the damp shadows of the night looking through the muted sheen of drizzle in the night lights, a darker shadow comes into view.
22 The Woods – The Buyer (2015) by LV Gaudet
He turns on the tap, intending to drink from the tap. There is a faint hiss of trapped air escaping and nothing else. “Oh yea, I have to get the water turned on too.”
Garden Grove: 5 The Coffee Clutch – Vern Lezkowitz by LV Gaudet
There could be no good reason for Vern Lezkowitz to be skulking around Garden Grove in the night.
21 The Woods – Kevin and Jesse (1985) by LV Gaudet
“Electricity would be nice. So would a T.V.” He stares blankly at the dark lifeless old tube T.V. “Tomorrow, I see about getting the electricity turned on.”
Garden Grove: 5 The Coffee Clutch – Coffee by LV Gaudet
“If that old Mrs. Crampchet has dementia, then I have six toes,” Mrs. Henderson humphed.
LV Gaudet, author of dark fiction 