A Dark Autumn (15 page)
Authors: Kristopher Rufty
What have
we
done?
she wanted to scream at them.
Why us? Why did you come after
us
?!!
Of all the possibilities as to what may have been in the kitchen, she’d never once considered it to be them.
We’d done our part, kept to ourselves; let you take whatever the hell you wanted from the barns and sheds. We did nothing wrong!!!
The snarling and drooling and savoring assembly had inched in as close as they could. She could feel their tiny hands petting her, fondling her. Hatchets, knives, and scythes – anything small enough to hold – that they’d probably stolen from the surrounding farms were clutched firmly between their teeny digits. The weapons were nearly the same size as the intruders. Others were armed with weapons they’d made themselves: Sticks with rocks filed to points that had been strapped down with leather twine. Knives made of stone, and miniature replicas of the average-sized weapons the others were struggling to hold.
Their clothes, concocted from potato sacks, crudely stitched, home-bred garments that were either bleached white or died an assortment of colors like camouflaged fatigues. Their heads and faces were hidden under burlap hoods. Though it left their faces bare, the flap hung low, hiding the majority of their features. All that remained were their hideous smiles. The dripping drool and crooked teeth.
Then they lunged.
A Dark Autumn
Kristopher Rufty
Some vengeance cries for blood.
He’s a writer seeking solitude. They are four women on vacation looking for fun and relaxation.
But when they meet they will find only terror. An appalling crime will lead to an unthinkable, gruesome revenge. In the deep woods of Mountain Rock, no one will hear the screams, the agony, the mayhem. No one will hear them die.
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A Dark Autumn
Copyright © 2013 by Kristopher Rufty
ISBN: 978-1-61921-390-6
Edited by Don D’Auria
Cover by Scott Carpenter
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electronic publication: January 2013
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