Bricks Without Straw

Thanks, Morpheus Tales, for picking up my story, KILLING WALLACE CRAWTON, which is tentatively scheduled to appear in e-book format in MT #19 (January 2013). This is one of my favorite stories to-date, partly because I wrote it shortly after reading TRUE GRIT, and partly because it fills in some history for my fictional town, Mill Town, Ontario, which figures in several stories (both horror and literary). You can read a bit about KILLING WALLACE CRAWTON here, in a post I made just after writing it in May, 2011.

It was a somewhat cloudy, cold Friday. By mid-afternoon, temperatures in Toronto were hovering around -12 C. I remember the quality of light that afternoon, but not the temperature. I remember the confused worry on my mother's face when my father drove up in the family car - a green 1958 Mercury Meteor with foul-smelling vinyl upholstery that gave me headaches on hot summer days - hours before he was normally expected. I remember his downcast expression as he came up the front steps, a load of reference books under his arm.