Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Book Excerpt for the Day


    “Look, Mr. Cummings, there is no cosmic creature from outer space living in the basement.”

    “I don’t know where it came from, but I do know it’s intelligent.”  He aimed the same fingers at the dryers.  “Why do you think those signs are up?”

    “That’s obvious,” she looked at the messy handwriting scrawled out on rumpled paper warning the tenants not to put anti-static sheets in the dryers.  “More than likely it was Grogan on one of his power trips.”  She cracked a smile.  “Besides, why would a monster post signs on the dryers?”

    (from Road Games and Other Weird Tales by Marlin Williams)

     8½*/10.  The full review is here.
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