One Buck Horror: Volume One

One Buck Horror

Volume 1

edited by

Christopher Hawkins

Kris M. Hawkins

featuring stories by

Ada Hoffmann

Julie Jansen

Mark Onspaugh

Mike Trier

Elizabeth Twist

cover art by

Shawn Conn

ISBN: 978-1-937346-02-7

Copyright © 2011 Coronis Publishing. All rights reserved.

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Contents

Jenny's House by Ada Hoffmann

A Lullaby for Caliban by Mark Onspaugh

The Last Nephew by Elizabeth Twist

The Cornfield by Mike Trier

The Ginger Men by Julie Jansen

Jenny's House

by Ada Hoffmann

For show and tell today I brought a G.I. Joe covered with slime from the slime monster in Jenny's basement. You can see how it's green and gooey and light goes right through it, and if you squeeze the ziplock bag, it moves like this. Squish. I'm not going to open the bag because it smells bad. It smelled worse at Jenny's house.

I was over there playing G.I. Joes with Jenny and the whole house smelled awful, and I held my nose and I said, Pee-yu! And Jenny said, Sorry, that's the slime monster. We can't clean it up.

I told Jenny I wanted to see the slime monster, because slime monsters are awesome and you guys would want to hear about it. But Jenny said, No, it's dangerous. I said, If it's so dangerous why do you live here? Can't you move somewhere else? And Jenny said, Mom doesn't want to. A man came in trying to steal the TV and it ate him, so Mom says it's safer to stay. I said, That’s cool, even if it smells bad. It’s a superhero. Slime Monster Defender Man!

So we tried to play with G.I. Joes but everything smelled bad. I said, All my G.I. Joes are going to stink when I bring them home. And Jenny said, Sorry. When she talked about the slime monster her face got all screwed up and nervous like this. Meeeugh.

I said, Did the slime monster ever try to eat you? And Jenny said, I don't want to talk about it. Let's just play G.I. Joes.

Jenny made her G.I. Joe fall off a cliff and land on a lion so he survived but then the lion ate him up, and I laughed and laughed, and Jenny's face got all screwed up and she said, Don't laugh so loud, that makes it mad. And when my Lego knights attacked the G.I. Joes in a big Lego cart I had them yelling like this, Kyaaaaa! And