A Cabin Tale

By Nelson Lowhim

In a cabin surrounded by a forest, a boy is alone with his grandpa. It's a windy night. A branch scrapes against a window, and threatens to break it. The young boy stares on and trembles. Outside, footsteps plod. Creatures are trying to break in.

With no gun, the boy and grandpa are at the mercy of the creatures. The grandpa tries to soothe the boy with a story. But the story is about an evil that the boy soon finds he can't escape...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eiso Publishing
• Release date: Oct 23, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301608775

Nelson Lowhim

Lowhim served in the US Army as a Green Beret Engineer and graduated from Columbia University. He's been published in LA review of LA, Nine Line Anthology, and Afterwords. Born in the bubbling cauldron of Tanzania, where he picked up his first pen at the age of two and chewed. He's progressed much since then. He wrote his first story at 5, a knockoff of all the prince-saves-princess stories he'd read at the time. Life did not rest. It took him to India, then frigid Michigan. The shock, according to parent-sources, was a character building exercise. Lowhim, however, only remembered clenched fingers trying to write. Shorts about teen angst kept him going. Soon he was hitchhiking the mountainous American West where the outlaw locals kept his journal full of color. It wasn't long before he joined the US Army where the detritus of Babylon only furthered his literary ambitions. Iraq wasn't done with him. He would return, an engineer in 5th SFG. When he returned from this trip, he finished his first novel. Released upon the world, he attended Columbia University. He spent his free time writing and working with other authors. He graduated and has since been penning some of the most ambitious novels this side of that Pluto rock. Lowhim currently lives with his girlfriend in the Bronx. You can visit his blog at: http://nelsonlowhim.blogspot.com/ And you can sign up for book deals here: http://eepurl.com/DX2In His novels are: When Gods Fail (the series), The Struggle Trilogy, Tree of Freedom, and CityMuse

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A Cabin Tale

By Nelson Lowhim

Copyright 2012 Nelson Lowhim

Eiso Publishing

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A branch scrapes against the window, and I jump. My eyes move to the window with the offending tree tips. The wind's picking up, and the branch whips away from the window and back at it. I jump again.

We should have cut that tree long ago, grandpa says. That thing is too damn close. Day like this, it’s gonna fall on us. He pushes his glasses closer to his eyes as he peers over the newspaper and eyes me. I’m not sure if he wants me to answer. Grandpa can be like that. He says things, usually a complaint, and if I answer or say something I think will help him, he only looks at me. He does the same if I don’t answer either. This time he grunts.

I look back down at my book. It’s a fairytale book that my pa gave me last week. I’m almost done with it. I can hear grandpa snap the newspaper back into reading position.

Another scrape. I get up and walk to the window. Winter is almost here. It hasn’t snowed yet, but it’s cold. My nose presses against the freezing