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Sometimes, you don’t know what you’re made of until it’s staring you in the face...
It was bad enough that people treated Ben like a freak - now he’s seen something even bigger and hairier than he is hiding in the Arkansas woods, and he needs to find it to prove that he’s no crazier than anyone else. Find it with him – read “Sasqwhat?”
“Sasqwhat?" is a speculative fiction novelette, and is also available in the collection “More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND.”
William Mangieri
William Mangieri is a karaoke junkie, former theater student, and recovered wargamer who spends as much time wondering "what if?" as "why not?". He writes from Texas, where he and his family live at the mercy of the ghost of a nine-pound westie.William writes mostly speculative fiction (that’s science fiction, fantasy and horror), although he also has a detective series with a soft sci-fi element (Detective Jimmy Delaney.) He completed writing his first novel (Swordsmaster) in 2019; prior to this, he has honed his skills on short fiction. He has been published in Daily Science Fiction and The Anarchist, and six of his stories have earned Honorable Mentions in the Writers of the Future contest.
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Sasqwhat? - William Mangieri
Sasqwhat?
by William Mangieri
Copyright 2012 by William Mangieri
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Sasqwhat?
In his dreams, Ben Warren wasn’t the ridiculously over-sized teen who attracted stares wherever he went; he was normal-sized, like his brother David.
In this one, Ben shuffled through the thick bed of leaves, in the dappled autumn sunlight that filtered through the trees. Ben’s breath left a cloud of mist in the chill air. He wandered away from the two cabins the family was renting, deeper into the Ozark woods. A blue jay screeched above him.
There was another sound; Ben stopped walking. There it was again, a sort of snuffling. They’d been told there were black bears in the area - maybe there was one rooting around in his dream.
He inhaled. There was a pungent odor. That was weird. His sense of smell was good - overdeveloped, even - but he didn’t remember dreaming smells before. He heard the snuffling again, only this time he could feel the warm breath on his face.
Ben woke, and found himself staring into deep, bright eyes surrounded by hair. He... it... whatever it was, was huge, and bent over Ben’s cot.
Ben shouted and tried to pull away, but only succeeded in toppling his cot on its side. The thing retreated a couple of steps, but then stopped, staring at Ben as he watched from behind the cot. In the dim back-light coming from the doorway, it looked like it was completely covered in fur. Its breath misted in the morning air.
It started to walk toward him, but when Ben yelled again, it shook its head and raised a finger to its lips.
Hey, big guy, you’re up, finally,
David called from outside. Mom and Dad headed into town.
Ben heard the clunk of David’s feet on the cabin’s porch. The big hairy thing