E.D.

by Timothy C. Hobbs

Like most guys, Ted hates to admit Time is catching up with him. When the lead in his pencil isn’t up to the occasional “scribble” anymore, the reality is sadly unavoidable. Even worse, when the pills, potions, and powders won’t work, the only choice left seems to be accepting Fate and drinking heavily.


When a savior in the guise of a guy he barely recalls from high school offers Ted a cure, it seems too good and too unbelievable to be true. To his unending horror, Ted learns all too soon sometimes the cure really IS worse than what ails you.

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First published September 3, 2014

About the author

Timothy C. Hobbs is a retired Medical Technologist living in Robinson, Texas. He wrote his first short story in the sixth grade and at the time I believed the title of The Vampire of England to be quite original. The main character, Alucard, was Dracula in reverse. He still has that penciled, long-hand manuscript.

The year 2005 was his first actual money sales experience. He sold a short story and a flash fiction piece to Dark Tales (Autumn 2005 Issue#7 and Autumn 2006 Issue#9) a U.K. publication, and a short story to spinetinglermag.com (Fall 2005 Issue#4) a Canadian on-line publication. He has published short stories and poems in New Texas, an annual literary journal in 2000, 2001 and 2003.

Timothy C. Hobbs is a consummate horror writer and his stories are both horrific and beautifully crafted.