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.
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