Triple Threat

By Stephen Couch

Three short horror stories by acclaimed author Stephen Couch:

SIN TAX: An elderly farmer faces a final judgement as he prepares the latest in a long series of ritual sacrifices.

FOO BOXEN: A group of physics students reenact the "Schrodinger's Cat" experiment...with nightmarish results.

AISLE FIVE: A social worker fleeing tragedy confronts her destiny in a late-night supermarket.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stephen Couch
• Release date: Jun 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476449944

Stephen Couch

Stephen Couch is a writer, a computer programmer, a cover band vocalist, an award-winning audio drama producer, and a lifelong Texan. His short fiction has appeared in such venues as Talebones, Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia, and the Stoker Award-finalist Horror Library Vol. 3.

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Triple Threat

By Stephen Couch

Published by Mere Moments Publishing at Smashwords

Copyright 2012 Stephen Couch

Cover image 'Streetlight' copyright © 2012 Comstock Images/Photos.com

This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental.

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CONTENTS

Sin Tax

Foo Boxen

Aisle Five

About the Author

Sin Tax

A shovel: that's what he needed.

Jefferson started out with a scythe, clearing away browning tobacco stalks until he had enough bare land to work with. He moved on to a post-hole digger, but the soil wouldn't cooperate -- granular, slippery, it trickled between the scooping blades before he could shift any appreciable amount aside.

If that's how it was going to behave, he'd have no choice but to fetch the shovel.

Back aching, he tramped his way out of the field, the rest of the tobacco plants still and noiseless under the bloated moon. They waited: rotation was coming soon, and they'd sleep, ploughed under and buried beneath the earth they'd nearly sucked dry of nutrients. The trellises would come up, grapevines snarled amongst them, and in time the soil would be replenished