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4 Jan 2024 6 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The main building has four bedrooms, all in a row on the northern side of the second floor. These were originally reserved for the kitchen staff, but in the absence of such, apart from Chef Jen, three fourths of them went unclaimed. Then Gr...
3 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“Man, your timing could not be better!” Lenny had marveled, when Jeremy called him, not even 24 hours after losing his construction gig. “Yeah, he already agreed to it, on the spot,” Jeremy explains, “not that it really took much convincing...
2 Jan 2024 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
“I need this!” Kay screams, hands out and fingers raised as if about to claw her mother. “I fucking NEED this, and YOU already agreed to it!” Emily and Denise are on their way over right now, this morning of their scheduled departure. Every...
31 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
toy collection at an artists’ retreat “Lenny! Get over here!” the foreman, Bob Griffin, barks at him from across the muddy expanse of their work site. Rivet gun in hand, Lenny was en route to the makeshift elevator, which would take him t...
24 Dec 2023 4 minute read 1 comment jasonmcgathey
Sometimes Kay resents the relationship Emily has with her parents. Well, not resent, exactly, more like it fills her with profound sadness, and leads to bouts of fantasy when contemplating the situation over here. She often wonders how di...
23 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Doll tornado in an artists’ retreat Emily is uncertain about a great deal concerning her background. By all rights, she should probably be one of the snobbish popular girls. And even as things have always stood, most would probably agree...
22 Dec 2023 3 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
The return trip southwest, to their hometown of Jenson, NC, takes right at an hour. This region one of those odd pits devoid of interstates, between the two points, a drive involving state routes and country roads between countless towns...
21 Dec 2023 5 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
As they are leaving with pamphlets and all kinds of other information in hand, Kidwell points out, heartily chucking as he does, that if they had never turned off onto this road, they were actually moving in the right direction and would...
20 Dec 2023 9 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
They pass the lake in a flash, just one S curve of a bridge, which slips through the narrowest visible point between its shores. To their left, the slightly shorter expanse, and a sign indicating it’s the reservoir for the nearby town of...
19 Dec 2023 16 minute read 0 comments jasonmcgathey
Is this uphill or downhill? Does it help to know you came down a hill, from the other direction, to arrive at this spot? “This is some seriously creepy territory,” Emily says, as they turn from the paved road onto one composed of half dirt,...
