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Mabini Shadows
Mabini Shadows
When Dan can finally return to Manila, he remembers his love for the bar girl Lin Lin. So does Raul the police informer. And the Mabini shadows.
Now Lin Lin's face consists of a mass of scar tissue, so her shame keeps him away from her old lover. He can't still love her. Or can he? And then Raul wants to tip off the police. While the Mabini shadows lie in way to take their revenge.
When Dan first meets Lin Lin on a crowded sidewalk in the notorious Manila bar district of Mabini, he doesn't want a woman for the night.
By the time he kisses Lin Lin goodbye to get in the taxi to ride to the airport, he falls in love.
Soon after, Mayor Alfredo Lim closes the Mabini bars, and Lin Lin goes to work in a less safe area. Where she meets a customer who doesn't want any other men to see her pretty face . . . so he slashes it with a knife.
Now Dan returns to the Philippines, looking to marry Lin Lin.
Will he find her, when she doesn't want him to see her scars?
If so, will he still love her?
The Mabini shadows, who have not forgotten the passions of life, want to know.
So does a police informer hoping to profit from getting foreigners arrested for going with prostitutes.
WARNING: This short story contains NO explicit sexual content. It is horror/urban fantasy, not erotica.
Nightshade Publications first purchased the rights to this short story for inclusion in the magazine HAUNTS, but they didn't put it out before HAUNTS ceased publication.
3,800 word short story.
So scroll up and download Mabini Shadows now.
When Dan can finally return to Manila, he remembers his love for the bar girl Lin Lin. So does Raul the police informer. And the Mabini shadows.
Now Lin Lin's face consists of a mass of scar tissue, so her shame keeps him away from her old lover. He can't still love her. Or can he? And then Raul wants to tip off the police. While the Mabini shadows lie in way to take their revenge.
When Dan first meets Lin Lin on a crowded sidewalk in the notorious Manila bar district of Mabini, he doesn't want a woman for the night.
By the time he kisses Lin Lin goodbye to get in the taxi to ride to the airport, he falls in love.
Soon after, Mayor Alfredo Lim closes the Mabini bars, and Lin Lin goes to work in a less safe area. Where she meets a customer who doesn't want any other men to see her pretty face . . . so he slashes it with a knife.
Now Dan returns to the Philippines, looking to marry Lin Lin.
Will he find her, when she doesn't want him to see her scars?
If so, will he still love her?
The Mabini shadows, who have not forgotten the passions of life, want to know.
So does a police informer hoping to profit from getting foreigners arrested for going with prostitutes.
WARNING: This short story contains NO explicit sexual content. It is horror/urban fantasy, not erotica.
Nightshade Publications first purchased the rights to this short story for inclusion in the magazine HAUNTS, but they didn't put it out before HAUNTS ceased publication.
3,800 word short story.
So scroll up and download Mabini Shadows now.
19 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 31, 2012
About the author
Richard Stooker
93 books1 followerRichard Stooker hails from the Mississippi River town of Alton, Illinois, warping him for life.
Rich in history, Alton provides a combination of the idyllic Illinois background Ray Bradbury wrote of; the Mississippi River and bluffs of Mark Twain; and a rich, unique history -- often violent.
From the Indian legend of the Piasa Bird, to the tallest man who ever lived (Robert Wadlow), to the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray.
FATE Magazine terms Alton "The most haunted small town in America."
Richard's childhood home stands close to the route where Union wagons once carried the corpses of Confederate prisoners who died of smallpox. At 8 years old, he first hears of James Earl Ray, (who later assassinates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) Ray robs a grocery story owned by the grandparents of close neighbors and friends.
In 1974 a still-unknown murderer abducts one of Richard's friends from a record store and kills him. Several years later, the father of other childhood friends goes on a jealousy-inspired, mass murder spree, killing three people -- including Richard's high school class president -- before committing suicide.
Richard's over 30 years for a social service government agency gives him a broad background of dealing with both the worst and best people in modern society.
When he writes, Richard realizes the horror and joy of every day life inspire dark fantasy stories.
Rich in history, Alton provides a combination of the idyllic Illinois background Ray Bradbury wrote of; the Mississippi River and bluffs of Mark Twain; and a rich, unique history -- often violent.
From the Indian legend of the Piasa Bird, to the tallest man who ever lived (Robert Wadlow), to the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray.
FATE Magazine terms Alton "The most haunted small town in America."
Richard's childhood home stands close to the route where Union wagons once carried the corpses of Confederate prisoners who died of smallpox. At 8 years old, he first hears of James Earl Ray, (who later assassinates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) Ray robs a grocery story owned by the grandparents of close neighbors and friends.
In 1974 a still-unknown murderer abducts one of Richard's friends from a record store and kills him. Several years later, the father of other childhood friends goes on a jealousy-inspired, mass murder spree, killing three people -- including Richard's high school class president -- before committing suicide.
Richard's over 30 years for a social service government agency gives him a broad background of dealing with both the worst and best people in modern society.
When he writes, Richard realizes the horror and joy of every day life inspire dark fantasy stories.
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June 28, 2014
Short but effective ghost story set in the sleazier part of Manila. Also works quite well as a love story. But the ending is a bit abrupt.
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