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    The Creepies
    The Creepies
    The Creepies
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    The Creepies

    By William R. Hicks

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    A chilling short story by William R. Hicks in which a young boy, Bill, and his older brother, Joe, find themselves face to face with life from outer space, causing both of them to look at life on Earth in a whole different way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilliam R. Hicks
    Release dateSep 10, 2012
    ISBN9781301603589
    The Creepies
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    William R. Hicks

    William Raymond Hicks is a native of Southern California who met his wife, Elise (also a Southern California native), in 1996 through a transformational workshop environment called Lifespring (now M.I.T.T.). During much personal growth together, William was inspired to begin painting, as well as to co-write Wings: The Journey Home, with Elise in 1997. “Wings” is their first joint book, Our Experiences As Ghosts Aboard Titanic is their second, and ‘The Workbook’ for “Wings” is their third. They have also published 50 Poems & Musings for Ropepullers, which they co-wrote with their brother, Joseph Hicks.William has been painting, journaling, writing poetry, and creating his own works of both fiction and non-fiction. He has written a series of non-fiction books called What Most People Don’t Know..., which touches on alternative views of topics such as The Bible, cancer, money, and life purpose. William has also written a series of fiction books called Adventures with Joe, in which he and his brother, Joe, time-travel together to both the past and the future, come face to face with the paranormal, enter a wormhole to another dimension, and come face to face with alien visitors.William is working on several other books with both Elise and Joseph, as well as more of his own works. William and Elise are students of history, psychology, self-empowerment, metaphysics, and quantum physics, and their intention is to teach what they have learned in a unique, fun, and inspiring way.

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      The Creepies - William R. Hicks

      The Creepies

      A Short Story by William Raymond Hicks

      Copyright 2012 William Raymond Hicks & Elizabeth Emily Hicks

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      Cover design by William & Elizabeth Hicks, Photograph by Nikki Russo

      ***~~~***

      Table of Contents

      Prologue

      Section I

      Section II

      Section III

      Section IV

      The End

      Photograph by Nikki Russo

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Connect with Us Online

      ***~~~***

      The Creepies

      By William R. Hicks

      Under your bed

      In your closet

      The attic or basement

      From where do the creepies come?

      Usually at night

      While you lie asleep

      To take you away

      It’s time for inspection

      To check out their chattel

      I walk in my sleep

      And look up at the stars

      Joe screams in darkness

      And falls out of bed

      Dreams turn into nightmares

      Bogeymen or hobgoblins

      Specters or demons of old

      They cometh

      To cultivate their stock

      Servants from beyond

      Independent of space

      Unbound to time

      Behind the curtain

      Outside the window

      On the roof or in the back room

      Where do the creepies lurk?

      Watchers over the herd

      Shepherds of the flock

      Keepers of the crop

      Glimpses here and there

      Buried deep in our minds

      Dreams within dreams

      The creepies are coming for you…

      From where do the creepies come?

      ***~~~***

      I woke up in the middle of the night for no apparent reason. It was a warm summer evening in Manhattan Beach, California and there was not a sound in the house except some low, white noise from the refrigerator and other household appliances down the hall. Joe was fast asleep in the bunk above me and our room was fairly dark, although there was a soft blue glow from the Moon entering in through our window and glass door leading to our backyard patio.

      I felt somewhat anxious even though I did not have a clear reason to be. I could not recall any nightmare—normally it would be fresh in my memory—and there was nothing pressing on my mind. School was out for the summer and I had no baseball, football or soccer game coming up. I was compelled to get out of bed; I sat up and looked straight ahead at our closet. One of the doors was cracked open slightly and it was pitch black inside. That’s odd, I thought. Those doors are always closed. I climbed out of bed and slowly walked over towards the closet while dragging my feet; Joe and I would occasionally leave toys and games lying about on the floor and I wasn’t about to step or trip on anything. I moved closer to the door and reached out to push it shut. I could feel a coolness coming from the closet—there was some broken drywall inside our closet and a

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