Hoard

by Noel Coughlan

Laura is Ger’s last hope. His hoarding has ruined the lives of his neighbors and now threatens his own. As Laura and her team prepare to clean out his property under the glare of cameras, she is unaware that a sinister secret lies buried beneath the morass of junk, a dark truth waiting to kill her.

A six-thousand-word short story.

32 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 24, 2021

About the author

Noel lives with his wife and daughter in the West of Ireland. He writes epic fantasy, science fiction and horror.

From a young age, he was always writing a book. Generally, the first page over and over. Sometimes, he even reached the second page before he had shredded an entire copybook. And you couldn’t even recycle all that wasted paper back then.

When he finally wrote and published a book, it took him fourteen years. The Golden Rule became two books so let us be generous and say he averaged seven years per novel. He has gotten a little faster since then. Honest.

His hobbies include writing, reading, and reading about writing. He has written about reading in the past, and he occasionally writes about his writing. He would happily stay at home all day writing, but the family dog, Ruby, insists on taking him for daily walks.

His pet hates include writing his biography and referring to himself in the third person.

Reviews

[Jeanine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable story

[Michael Nix · Rating 2 out of 5]

Resolution missing!

I could not believe this author had the audacity to ask for readers to read his other writings after leaving them wondering about any resolution to this story. The penultimate words of this story may or may not be the story's climax or resolution of any kind.

Michael

[Christopher Armani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well done, Noel Coughlan!

[Lottie · Rating 5 out of 5]

An interesting story, but a little gruesome for my taste.

[PAR]

Have you ever watched the network show Hoarders? Where the person living in the house horaded so much that rats run through beneath trash and junk. Sometimes the piles reach the ceiling and the hoarder actually sleep on top a pile of junk. Well that Ger. His hoarding has ruined the lives of his neighbors his family and now threatens his own life. As Laura and her team prepare to clean out his property Ger’s see Laura as his last hope. She and her team have come and she is going to help him unmass the hoard there are even cameras watching everything that is happening. His neighbors stand outside and watch the team glaring at Ger and how is has ruined their lives, their property values. What Laura does not know that there is something buried a the bottom of all this junk that may take her life.
This novel caught at page one and held my attention until the very last page. I would highly recommend this author and I would love to read the upcoming novels. I gave this honest, voluntary review after being given a free copy of the novel.

[Tina Lincoln · Rating 5 out of 5]

Action Packed Full-Bodied Scary Short Story!
This story has you trying to think ahead, what is REALLY in that house? In the Yard with all of those vehicles there, just rotting and rusting away? What truly happened to Ger's wife? There are SO many questions for being a short story!
Thank you, Noel Coughlan for a Great Story! I look forward to the next story!