Deep Lies the Murky Floor: A Short Story

By Casey Criswell

From a young age we are urged to fight our fears. For Simon, those fears involve girls, bullies and things that lie deep beneath the surface of the pond.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Casey Criswell
• Release date: Apr 14, 2011

Casey Criswell

Having spent several years writing essays on horror films at his website Cinema Fromage, full time duties writing news and film reviews for bloody Good Horror, as well as sharing his love and knowledge of horror films with anyone willing to listen, Casey finally decided to stray from the path of other people's nightmares and invent a few scares of his own. His previously published stories include “Jackboots for Jesus”, “A Fine Line”, “A Fat Man and his Dog”. Casey can also be heard weekly co-hosting the Bloody Good Horror Podcast.

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Deep Lies The Murky Floor

Casey A. Criswell

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DEEP LIES THE MURKY FLOOR

By Casey Criswell

"Come on chicken shit, you?e the only one who hasn? swam across.Billy Connolly was typical for a twelve year old bully; pudgy in girth, pig faced in both appearance and attitude. Seldom did he pass the chance to impose himself upon those of lesser stature.

"You know Billy, I don? really care if everybody else did it. I? not going to.Simon was the antithesis of Billy. Slight of frame, bony in nature, he often set off the feeding instinct in many a mother who gazed upon him at the beach.

That summer at Price? Pond was a