Item: Salem, Mass., 1992
The new owners of The Harmony House had most of the interior walls of the old building removed and replaced as part of a black mold remediation. During this process, a strange skeleton was found in one of the ground floor bedrooms. Disagreement arose immediately regarding the age and gender of the short, thick bones. More than a few credible experts, citing the strange narrow skull, maintained that the bones were not even human. Certainly the sloped and elongated angles of the skull, the swollen knobs of bone, terribly suggestive of horns, at either temple, only gave weight to their arguments.
But if these bones are not human, the majority opinion asked, what are they?
- Transcribed by Richard Cody, 2005 -
posted by Richard Cody @ 1:56 PM
3 comments:
what spooky stories! good stuff. i like the uncertainty of the ending of this short one. re their being "transcribed" -- transcribed from voices in head?
best, JP
Glad you enjoyed the transcriptions, JP!
I refere to these pieces as such because I have come to realize, while working on my ongoing narrative, The Blue Dog Journal, that at its best the art of writing (fiction at least) is like channeling information from some mysterious source. I often feel as if I am just writing it down and have in fact come to use the expression "just write it down", as a kind of inspirational mantra or slogan, at least.
Thanks for stopping by.
aha, 100% get it. and will check out BDJ too.
Post a Comment
<< Home