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The Haunted Traveler May 2017 Edition

After a brief hiatus, The Haunted Traveler is back to bring you some of the best horror out there. Open up and tread with caution, the next scare is just a page flip away.

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portunities to experiment with sculpture and acrylics<br />

in an area without walls.<br />

Spaciousness. A favored attribute, a structural concept<br />

promoting freedom and self-contentment. Or<br />

rather, self-containment. I looked to the resident coordinator,<br />

assuring her, “I’ll pay everything today. Even<br />

the renter’s insurance.” She grinned, beckoning me to a<br />

groaning elevator that required five minutes to drop us<br />

two stories down. I sat before her, filled out my packets,<br />

paid for my coverage on a cracked smartphone. She<br />

asked if I ever slit my fingers on “those damn things.”<br />

I told her this never happened to me, and in turn, inquired<br />

about the rats and serpents. She shook her head,<br />

eyes darted in askance towards the office’s new coffeemaker.<br />

“That reviewer ran a prostitution ring from her<br />

unit. She posted that after the eviction.” I looked for a<br />

window, settling my eyes on a Technicolor painting of<br />

a Pembroke Welsh corgi instead. Dogs smart enough<br />

to play cordial tetherball.<br />

Pursuing this efficiency a good three years, I walked<br />

around it about five times, snapping my deceased<br />

mother’s spine in thirty-six instances of clumsiness<br />

and heat wave-induced fatigue. But the efficiency felt<br />

cool, treating my heat rash without much of a costly<br />

doctor’s appointment to receive numerous corticosteroid<br />

injections that left me relieved for two days, at<br />

most.<br />

A luxury car dealership built and operated in the<br />

mid-1970s in a city fueled by tourism. I thought of<br />

those who bought a car, wondered if they were twenty-six<br />

like myself, and mused that possibly, some of

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