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The Head [MultiFormat]
eBook by Simon Wood
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eBook Category: Horror
eBook Description: Tammy's childhood is no Norman Rockwell painting, but when she finds a shrunken head, it promises to make life better for her. The head lied.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Dragged Into Darkness, 2003
Fictionwise Release Date: March 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [209 KB], eReader (PDB) [33 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [20 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [19 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [79 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [91 KB], hiebook (KML) [56 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [49 KB], iSilo (PDB) [16 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [21 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [49 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [31 KB]
Words: 6099
Reading time: 17-24 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
As the image of her mother's burning head seared Tammy's mind, she laughed. Her laughter contained no joy, only hysteria. A squirrel quivered on a tree branch. She studied the creature. It knew better than to mess with her. She looked away and the squirrel darted into the woods and to safety. Tammy raced after the animal, but she wasn't chasing it. It just happened to be going her way. The bridge was where she wanted to be. The bridge was where it had all started and where it all had to end... * * * *She always came to the bridge when life was too much, and tonight was no exception. The moon overhead was bright and full. The wind lacked the strength to tousle the green hair of the trees. Tammy stood in the middle of the time-ravaged bridge, the wood so old it was no longer brown but a bone-gray. She leaned over the edge and stared at her shimmering reflection in the flowing water. Sometimes, she thought, parents suck. Her mother was her special self again--the drama queen. She was the downtrodden one, the oppressed one, the unappreciated one and everyone else was to blame. If she hated her life so much why didn't she just leave? Tammy wished she would. Moonlight reflected off something floating in the water, riding the current towards the bridge. Tammy followed its path towards her, finding the activity soothing, taking her away from her frustrations. The object crept closer and in a second it would be under the bridge and out of her life. But she didn't want it out of her life. She needed the curiosity--the complication. She darted down to the riverbank and launched herself into the freezing water, not caring how wet she got. For a second, she thought her foolhardiness had caused her to lose the object, but then she saw it bobbing on the surface and plucked it from the water.
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