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    Outhouse
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    Outhouse

    By Alexander S. Brown

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    Halloween. A holiday that inspires memories, excitement, and a little bit of fear in everyone. A single day where all the ghosts and ghoulies come out to play and sometimes its hard to tell which of the creepy crawlies are human and which ones truly rise from beyond seeking unsuspecting souls. Author Alexander S. Brown explores all the wonderfully terrifying possibilities Halloween has to offer in his Pro Se Single Shot Signature Series- The Night The Jack O’ Lantern Went Out! Each month Brown delivers a new short story of terror laced with just enough nostalgia that makes us all hope Halloween comes sooner...and stays far enough away that the monsters don’t get us!

    Brown’s third tale, Outhouse, proves just how much power legends and boogeyman stories have in the life of a child. You’ll never go to the bathroom late at night again without looking over your shoulder after reading Outhouse by Alexander S. Brown.

    Outhouse by Alexander S. Brown, the third short story from The Night The Jack O’ Lantern Went Out, a Pro Se Single Shot Signature Series from Pro Se Productions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPro Se Press
    Release dateOct 30, 2014
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      Outhouse - Alexander S. Brown

      OUTHOUSE

      THE NIGHT THE JACK O’LANTERN WENT OUT, PART 3

      By Alexander S. Brown

      Copyright © 2014 Alexander S. Brown

      Published by Pro Se Press

      When I was a young’un, I saw a monster. Now, my Momma and Poppa done always told me, ‘Ere ain’t no such things as ghouls or haints. But one October of my childhood made ‘em be flat out wrong.

      I remember that harvest like it was yesterday. God, had been good to our farm, blessin’ us with a full coop of chickens, a pen of hogs and piglets, and prize winning heifers. Oh, and Momma had a full garden she already picked clean fer ‘er cannin’. Only some pumpkins were left out ‘ere. In ‘bout a week, ‘em gourds would git carved up to keep Jack away.

      Tha day that haunts me was a Sunday. With Sunday bein’ tha day of rest, we was relaxin’ outside. Poppa was smokin’ his pipe and readin’ tha paper. Momma was passin’ time by cross stitchin’ and hummin’ church hymns. They were both sittin’ on the porch, in ‘eir rockers.

      Now, Brother was bein’ punished. He been caught havin’ ill relations in tha shed outback with that floozy down tha road, Lillymae. Now, they weren’t doin’ nothin’ that would keep ‘em outta Heaven. They had been caught kissin’. When Lillymae’s pappy found out what she done,

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