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THE HORROR AT LAKE HARMONY: HORROR STORY, PART VIII

May 30, 2024 at 2:56 pm Leave a comment

This story was published by Necrology Shorts in January 2010.

                      THE HORROR AT LAKE HARMONY

  I could not believe that circumstances were putting me in the one place I felt evil that evil might lurk.  How could I tell my wife we should not go because of a legend I read in an old book?  I admonished myself, “Get a grip.  Too much Stephen King.”

We arrived at our campsite.  It was a beautiful June day, yet I greeted our arrival with apprehension.  We were camping with friends who occupied site 35.  The next morning promised to be a day of adventure.

  After a breakfast of blueberry pancakes with berries picked from bushes growing on the edge of the lake, we went boating.  The afternoon was spent hiking along a trail surrounded by mountain laurel in full bloom.  It had been a truly wonderful day.  After a campfire, we said good night to our friends as they went to their tent.  It was late and time to turn in.  I told my wife to take our two girls and get ready for bed, that I would watch the embers of our dying fire.

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