by guest blogger Daniel Tracy
Giants! Once believed to be extinct, they have been seen again in this small
village in Appalachia. Everyone in the
village knows someone who has gone missing.
Most of them believe their brothers, fathers and cousins were probably
eaten by giants. But those disappearances happened long ago.
Now, everyone feels safe. They hunt for game in the woods. They gather mushrooms in the woods. They tend to their bees and gather their
herbs without a second thought about the massive menace from those old
stories. But one day, an old man was
walking alone in the woods when it happened.
He felt the ground tremble and heard the birds go silent. And then he heard screams. Hobbling faster, he came to the edge
of a clearing. A huge shadow draped the spring grass and the vegetable patch in
blackness. The shadow began at two boulder size feet. His gaze traveled from
the feet, up hairy pillar legs, to a leather clad torso, a toothy Cheshire cat
grin, and stopped at black pin prick eyes, cold as unlit coal.
Who will be the next victim? Who will come to defend these peaceful mountain people from the horrible giants?
Massive Menace by Daniel Tracy, published by Glowing Ember
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