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Horror short story. Something stirs in a rotting tenement...but is it the creation of a junkie's fevered imagination, or an old, dark god seeking a home in a new, bleak age?
Stephen Couch
Stephen Couch is a writer, a computer programmer, a cover band vocalist, an award-winning audio drama producer, and a lifelong Texan. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Talebones, Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia, and the Stoker Award-finalist Horror Library Vol. 3.
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Needlepoint - Stephen Couch
Needlepoint
By Stephen Couch
Published by Mere Moments Publishing at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Stephen Couch
Cover image 'Syringe' copyright © 2012 Anton Gvozdikov/Photos.com
This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.
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Needlepoint
Terrell realized he might have a problem when a cockroach crawled over his face, stepping right on his eyeball, and he didn't even blink.
He raised a shaky hand to swat