Fear The Abyss: 22 Terrifying Tales Of Cosmic Horror - Plot & Excerpts
Ketchum lives in New York City where he continues to write, articles, reviews, short stories, novels and screenplays. For more information visit: www.thejackketchum.com. “Amid the Walking Wounded” originally appeared in the Bram Stoker Award™ winning 2003 collection, Peaceable Kingdom. It was four in the morning, the Hour of the Wolf he later thought, the hour when statistically most people died who were going to die on any given night and he awakened in the condo guestroom thinking that something had shaken him awake, an earthquake, a tremor--though this was Sarasota not California and besides, he'd been awakened by an earthquake many years ago one night in San Diego and this was somehow not quite the same. The glow outside the bedroom window faded even as he woke so that he couldn't be sure it was not in some way related to his sleep. He was aware of a trickling inside his nose, a thin nasal discharge, unusual because he was a smoker and used to denser emissions. He sniffed it up into his throat and thought it tasted wrong.
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