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    South of Okeechobee
    South of Okeechobee
    South of Okeechobee
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    South of Okeechobee

    By Daniel Powell

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    Somewhere in the River of Grass lives a sad and solitary creature. Once a man, this cursed monster now haunts the margins of human imagination, forever searching for his murdered love...

    A rip-roaring slice of Florida Folklore, "South of Okeechobee" is an origin story of one of the American South's great mythological creatures: the Florida Skunk Ape. Blending prohibition, cryptozoology, southern magic, and a little bit of moonshinin', "South of Okeechobee" is pure, high-octane Florida gothic...

    This short story (4500 words) originally appeared in the collection The Silver Coast and Other Stories.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Powell
    Release dateJan 7, 2014
    ISBN9781311837530
    South of Okeechobee
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    Daniel Powell

    Daniel Powell teaches a variety of courses at a small college in Northeast Florida. He is an avid outdoorsman and long-distance runner, and enjoys fishing the tidal creeks of Duval County from atop his kayak.He shares a small house near Florida's Intracoastal Waterway with his wife, Jeanne, and his daughter, Lyla. His stories have appeared in Redstone Science Fiction, Brain Harvest, Leading Edge, Something Wicked and Well Told Tales.Drop by The Byproduct, his web journal on speculative storytelling, at www.danielwpowell.blogspot.com.

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      South of Okeechobee - Daniel Powell

      South of

      Okeechobee

      A SHORT STORY

      DANIEL POWELL

      DISTILLATIONS PRESS

      South of Okeechobee © 2013 by Daniel Powell

      South of Okeechobee is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Cover design by Canopy Studios

      Interior layout by Distillations Press

      Smashwords Edition

      How?

      How does a legend become a legend? How does a myth grow into a tall tale and how does a tall tale become folklore and how does folklore harden into something akin to genuine belief?

      I am no scholar on the subject, but I can speak to something real that happened a long time ago. I can tell you a story about defiance and hatred. A story about place and community.

      A story about magic and power.

      I am now an old man, and I can’t guarantee I’ll get all of the details dead-solid perfect, mind you. Been a lot of water under that particular bridge since this whole thing happened. But I’m about as reliable a source as you’re apt to find on one of Florida’s greatest mysteries.

      I was there, you see, and the thing that happened—well, it happened to my brother.

      ~

      It wasn’t a town, so you couldn’t

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