September 2006 Issue
The Horror Library, your Haunted Home for Horror Fiction, Dark Art, Horror Games, Movie Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction, Alternative Music, Horror Authors, Horror Short Fiction and featuring The Terrible Twelve - RJ Cavender, Bailey Hunter, Boyd E Harris, Megg Roper, Jason Beirens, CJ Hurtt, Eric Stark, Cordelia Snow, Chris Perridas, Curt Mahr, Stephen Sommerville, M Louis Dixon, Kerry Drummond

Conversations By Jason R. Beirens Conversation No. 1 "So how long has he been like this?" "A few weeks, ah, since his wife died." "Hm?" "Yeah it was tragic. Car outta nowhere, she didn't feel a thing." "So he scrawls all of those things, that rubbish and rot on the walls." "Little truths." "Hm?" "Yeah, me and the others call them that. All of them - " "What?" " - All of them have come true - so far." "What?" "Well look, that one tells the closing numbers of a couple of stocks on the market for today. It just closed ten minutes ago, and they are exactly right." "And he wrote them, when?" "Yesterday morning." "Hm?" "Yeah, I made a mint. I put in my two weeks like twenty minutes ago." "Before the numbers came in?" "Like I said - he hasn't been wrong yet. So I took a chance and it paid off." "Good for you." "Well see ya. If ya want to talk to him pull that lever there, he can hear you through the opening." Conversation No. 2 "Hello, Charles." "That nurse will live happily ever after." "It sounds that way. I see you wrote it on the wall, so I take it to be true." "You will die a little tomorrow." "How do mean a little? Stop writing for a second and tell me." "A little death can be worse than a big death." "What's the difference?" "Figure it out." "Tomorrow. Shall I come and tell you about it?" "If it pleases you." "WILL I come and tell you about it tomorrow?" "Yes, but you knew that already." "So I won't die tomorrow?" "Only a little." Conversation No.3 (The Next Day) "Hello Charles." "You are crying." "Yes, the little death." "It took a bit of you, you can never get it back. " "I know. It is like a big part of me has been taken." "Now you know how it feels to be me." "I won't be like you though." "I know you won't. See - " "Yes, I see it on the wall. Did you write that - " "Yesterday, after you left." "How do you do that?" "It is what fills the whole of my little death." "Hm?" "You will have something of the sort soon enough." "Do you - " "Yes, I know, won't - can't tell - can't. " "Hm?" "Sleepy now. Don't take the bus, take a cab." "All right Charles." "Your daughter is all right you know." "She's DEAD!" "Dead is all right. No one gets out alive. More dead than alive. "It is all right. If you want to join her, take the bus." "I'M Leaving now." Conversation No. 4 "Bus." ©2005 All Rights Reserved - Jason R. Beirens - The Horror Library