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    Halloween Trio
    Halloween Trio
    Halloween Trio
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    Halloween Trio

    By Linda Jordan

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    Three Halloween stories about ghosts, monsters rising up from the past and lost souls from other worlds to delight you on this fall holiday.

    Includes the stories: Ghostly Promise, IT, and All Hallow’s Eve.

    These darkly magical tales turn old cliches on their head and spin them around. What fun!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetamorphosis Press
    Release dateOct 3, 2014
    ISBN9781311201263
    Halloween Trio
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    Linda Jordan

    Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes.In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She spent four years as Chair of the Board of Directors during Clarion West’s formative period. She’s also worked as a travel agent, a baker, and a pond plant/fish sales person, you know, the sort of things one does as a writer.Currently, she’s the Programming Director for the Writers Cooperative of the Pacific Northwest.Linda now lives in the rainy wilds of Washington state with her husband, daughter, four cats, a cluster of Koi and an infinite number of slugs and snails.

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      Halloween Trio - Linda Jordan

      Halloween Trio

      Halloween Trio

      Linda Jordan

      Metamorphosis Press

      Copyright © 2004 by Linda Jordan

      Published by Metamorphosis Press

      Contents

      Ghostly Promise

      IT

      All Hallow’s Eve

      About the Author

      Ghostly Promise

      Janie drove her Ford F-150 down the dirt road. Even in the near dark she could see the cloud of dust billowing out behind her.

      God, they needed rain. Dust seeped into the pickup cab covering everything and making her want to sneeze.

      It had been a long day at the liquor store. Halloween was one of the worst. Everybody dressed up to party, employees and customers. She’d dressed as a witch. Went to the Goodwill and found a black skirt and hat. Pulled out her black shirt and her fanciest black cowboy boots and some black leggings. That was about as much effort as she was willing to put into a costume. And as much money.

      She was working at the liquor store to make ends meet. The ranch wasn’t exactly a thriving proposition. Probably never would be. She’d had to sell off too many of the horses just to pay feed and farrier bills for those that remained. Which if there hadn’t been a drought for the last several years, she’d have enough pasture for most of them. And having a job didn’t give her much time to train the ones left to make them salable.

      Hey universe, you’re welcome to come up with some money so I can get out of this mess. Like yesterday, she said.

      And some rain would be nice, she added.

      The house came into view as she drove over the ridge. Janie watched as Black Lips picked up the sound of the pickup. The buckskin mare raced along the fence, followed by the rest of the herd.

      She needed to buy hay again. Mustangs didn’t eat much, but they ate enough to keep her broke.

      Janie climbed out of the truck, greeted by Max and Madras, her two German Shepherds, barking and racing in circles around her.

      Okay, I know, I know. It’s past dinnertime.

      The scents of sagebrush and dust filled her nose.

      She unlocked the front door and the dogs raced inside, pacing around the kitchen.

      She turned the lights on and locked the door, setting her purse and hat on the kitchen table.

      Dad, I’m home, she said, expecting no answer.

      But she could almost hear him in her head. ‘You’ll need to move the herd off the south pasture or that grass won’t grow back again over winter. And while you’re at it, pray for rain.’

      She sighed. What she wouldn’t give to hear his voice again.

      She scraped leftovers into bowls for the circling dogs and set the bowls down on the peeling green linoleum. She filled a couple smaller bowls on the countertops with cat food for Lefty and Lucy. She whistled and the two black cats thundered in the cat door, gulped down their food and raced back outside again. They must be hunting something.

      She filled a glass of water from the sink and drank, tasting the concentrated minerals in it. They didn’t used to taste so strong. Another side effect of the drought.

      Dad would have said, ‘You’re lucky we still have well water. So many of our neighbor’s wells have dried up.

      Janie slipped out the back door and walked inside the barn. She turned the indoor and outdoor lights on and opened the barn door which connected to the pasture. All seven horses trompled inside, their breath making clouds from the cold as if they were

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