Lean Season

By: Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Narrated by: Bill Murphy

Lonny hesitated, trembling. "Y-you mean it's just trying to scare us?"

Handlebar tweaked his nose. "That's right."

The fire returned to the young man's eyes - almost. He looked around the shattered dock, at the riddled corpse and the oily, bloody water, at the spitting power lines and the dead lights, the peeling boardwalk on the shore.

He shook his head. "No, it's not. It-it doesn't pretend, like you. It's gonna kill us, that's all." He stepped closer. "Can't you see that? You posing hillbilly? The spill's given it a-a lean season. It's sick, and it' s hungry, and...."

He glanced at the corpse. "And we probably just killed its mate."

©2017 Wayne Kyle Spitzer (P)2017 Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Enjoyable Short Story

I really enjoyed this short horror story the only thing that turned me off was the use of a derogatory term used against people of Asian ethnicity. The narrator was excellent. I received this book from Audiobooks Unleashed and this is my honest unbiased review.