Flip the Polaroids like a deck of cards, fan them in your hands. See the age-tinged colors mingle; shifting and mutating into an earthy kaleidoscope. Watch the images themselves creating an original composition. A new story that you could reorganize as you will. Any story can have a happy ending if you edit carefully. Dani and Eric spent their childhood summers at a cabin deep in the woods. Now a rebuilt luxury vacation property, it's a distant from what it once was as they are from each other. Drawn to the house after their father's death, the siblings try to reconcile their estrangement from one another. But the past isn't the past, and the polaroids Dani took their last summer together are a reminder of how present their pain really is. With storm clouds gathering...and an apparition stalking from from the shadows...Dani and Eric cannot cape the looming reminder of the tragedy that has defined, and might end, their lives.
Author
Bracken MacLeod has worked as a martial arts teacher, a university philosophy instructor, for a children's non-profit, and as a trial attorney. His short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including LampLight, ThugLit, and Splatterpunk and has been collected in 13 VIEWS OF THE SUICIDE WOODS by ChiZine Publications. He is the author of MOUNTAIN HOME, a novella titled WHITE KNIGHT, and STRANDED, from Tor Books. His newest novel, COME TO DUST, is coming from Journalstone/Trepidatio Press in June of 2017. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel.
