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Dandelions
What Kind of Hallucinatory, Weird Horror Could Be Inspired By "Dandelions"?
Dandelions. You know what they are. White weed puffs you blow on, make a wish, and giggle afterwards at the nonsense of it all. More so: "a widely distributed weed of the daisy family, with a rosette of leaves and large bright yellow flowers followed by globular heads of seeds with downy tufts."
Or are they?
Dandelions. You know what they are. White weed puffs you blow on, make a wish, and giggle afterwards at the nonsense of it all. More so: "a widely distributed weed of the daisy family, with a rosette of leaves and large bright yellow flowers followed by globular heads of seeds with downy tufts."
Or are they?
33 pages, Chapbook
First published September 22, 2014
16 people want to read
About the author
John Claude Smith
43 books116 followersJohn Claude Smith has published three collections (The Dark is Light Enough for Me [OOP], Autumn in the Abyss, and Occasional Beasts: Tales), along with two novels. His debut novel, Riding the Centipede, was a finalist for a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. His second novel, The Wilderness Within, was published by Trepidatio/JournalStone.
He is presently shopping four novels and two collections.
Busy is good.
He splits his time between the East Bay of northern California, across from San Francisco, and Rome, Italy, where his heart resides always.
Words Matter!
He is presently shopping four novels and two collections.
Busy is good.
He splits his time between the East Bay of northern California, across from San Francisco, and Rome, Italy, where his heart resides always.
Words Matter!
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June 7, 2016
The story is about two couples who want to take a quiet weekend get away to the ocean. They leave behind their cell phones and watches for that leisurely pressure free time on the beach.
Exhausted from their drive the couples check into a rundown motel in a rundown town near the beach.
Things get weird, then strange, then bizarre, than truly frighting. And YES, you can blame it on the dandelions.
Thank you to Mr. Smith for signing this chapbook.
Exhausted from their drive the couples check into a rundown motel in a rundown town near the beach.
Things get weird, then strange, then bizarre, than truly frighting. And YES, you can blame it on the dandelions.
Thank you to Mr. Smith for signing this chapbook.
August 29, 2015
A well deserved vacation, turns into a field of lost souls. Screaming into endless air.
Imagine "Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who" hammered over the head with a deadly nightmare. Smith blows readers away with this short. A path leads to a field of dandelions, but after seeing them. A couple can hear there screams calling for something......something they need to spread in its continuous growing and multiplying landscape.
A weird horror that will make you think next time. When you pick a dandelion and blow its top off into the air.
Imagine "Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who" hammered over the head with a deadly nightmare. Smith blows readers away with this short. A path leads to a field of dandelions, but after seeing them. A couple can hear there screams calling for something......something they need to spread in its continuous growing and multiplying landscape.
A weird horror that will make you think next time. When you pick a dandelion and blow its top off into the air.
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