The cross-crowned belfry was silhouetted against the jaundiced haze of the night sky, but the bell within was only a shapeless ripple of dark motion. This close to the source of the mesmerizing sound, James was caught, his feet held fast by the street’s tarry asphalt. The narrow street going up t...
The madman came in after him, but the growling barkeep chased him out with a ball bat. Two burly dockworkers at the bar berated the barkeep for not bashing the prophet’s head.“He darkens that door again, I’ll crack his skull like a coconut,” the barkeep boasted to his beer-swilling critics. “Reli...
It wasn’t easy because the zombified ladies wouldn’t move under their own steam; he had to gently push them forward to get them to shuffle along on their bare feet. If he pushed too hard or fast, they would slip on the wet ground and stumble and fall, but if he was too slow in leading them away f...
He grabbed hold of the rung in front of his face and held tight until the dizzying fear of falling passed. “Lord, don’t let me get struck by lightning,” he petitioned the great bearded Father who ruled heaven and earth and tossed down lightning bolts the way kids chucked rocks. “I got to finish c...