Some stood up and ran, covering their heads with the Sunday paper the ink moistened and split. Hands, arms, exposed bellies, all caught in a swell of falling kisses. The others, too, started to feel the assault. She looked up, and that is when one landed directly on her mouth, full of desire. Then it was the other cheek, but breathier. She grimaced, swatting quickly at her face, thinking hornet, or worse.
The mother felt the first one, her right cheek suddenly damp with quick tension. A nervous mother carefully fed Cheerios to her infant daughter a monolith to tenderness everywhere. A scoop of bedraggled college students whipped a Frisbee back and forth, their hair and t-shirts powdered in the fragrance of good weed.
Two old men thought very hard as they moved chess pieces across a table. A park of rolling grass and spread blankets, shady oaks and rows of pink tulips snapped to attention. Yet the sky held its one note of blue and all the clouds were vanquished. This enchanting chapbook of tiny horror stories chills and entertains from beginning to end.At first people thought it was raining. Each ghostly flash glows with damage, mystery, and inevitability. "In 25 TRUMBULLS ROAD, Christopher Locke weaves together a series of eerily gorgeous narratives in which fathers, mothers, children, and dogs stumble into waking nightmares. The events at 25 TRUMBULLS ROAD will stick and cycle back through your head for weeks."
Christopher Locke has channeled the ghosts of Matt Bell, Denis Johnson, and Jac Jemc, while retaining his own unique voice." "A haunting, surreal, visceral collection of tales that is lyrical and poetic, while not losing its bite. His stories ask: how does a home feed on this energy, growing stronger with each new, sinister end? As compulsively readable as it is unsettling, 25 TRUMBULLS ROAD takes us to the places we're afraid to go, then leaves us at a destination where we are our most human. Christopher Locke explores the ways in which our unspoken fears and everyday regrets sustain the darker heart of a home-its doorways and windows, its basements and lights-until it fills those corners of our lives with something close to terror. In these five tales, linked by a single haunted house, the characters move through a world suspended between nightmare and loss, where the unexplainable and disquieting are fueled by ordinary grief and longing. Five years later, the house's new set of inhabitants are visited by the spectral presence of the little girl they lost. When a new family moves into the house at 25 Trumbulls Road, the narrator's vivid dreams of a teary-eyed, raw-smelling woman who lives beneath the floor turn chillingly real. This house has seen things it won't let you forget.
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