The Day The Giants Came

By Angela Hall-Anderson

Jackson Artwell thought it was going to be another boring work day that is until the man eating Giants came to town. He has to race the clock of death to get home and rescue his family before they run out of time and become dinner.

Alexa Artwell can't believe her eyes when the Giants wreak havoc and turn her world upside down and it is left up to her to come up with an unusual plan to calm the Giants and bring order back to town.

This zany and fun filled novella will have you questioning yourself as to what would you do and how far would you go if faced with blood thirsty Giants?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Angela Hall-Anderson
• Release date: Jul 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301690763

Angela Hall-Anderson

Angela Hall-Anderson is an author who loves all things creative such as writing poetry, reading, sculpting and drawing but her first love is writing novels. Soul Substitute is her first published novel and she is hard at work on the next installment. When she isn't writing, she's spending time with her family in Missouri.

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The Day the Giants Came

By Angela Hall-Anderson

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© 2013 Angela Hall-Anderson

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. The author holds exclusive rights to this work. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited.

I dedicate this book to my family

And to anyone who loves to laugh.

If you’re looking for a literary masterpiece, then don’t read this book. It is not for people without a sense of humor and also not for children. It’s only for adults who have an open mind and like to have a good time.

This book was born from a dream and when told out loud, brought many laughs which led me to the decision to write it. It’s purely for enjoyment and imagination. So get ready for a wild ride of adventure with a spoonful of eroticism and fall in love with the characters as I did. Enjoy!

The ground rumbled with violent vibrations as the trees of the inhabited woods swayed and threatened to uproot. Night was near as the sun had bowed in the gray sky and the darkness slowly descended.

The little squirrel dropped the nuts it had stored in its mouth because it had to get home to its family as fast as it could. It sensed the evil that was coming. Over rocks and hills and around puddles, the little squirrel with white and black stripes down each side of its light brown colored back, raced away, all the while dodging all of the other wild animals that bolted to get to safety.

Even the predators ran because their sixth sense told them a colder blooded, more unmerciful, vicious killer would be upon them soon.

The earth shook with a feverish determination that matched the willpower of the

squirrel because he was unwavering in his pursuit to be reunited with his family.

He only had to get over the mound in the distance in order to see the tree he called home. His nose wrinkled as he sniffed the air; it reeked of danger. Run faster, he told himself; almost there.

As he reached the base of the bald cypress, he could see his beloved wife and son waiting for him. They too had sensed the imminent danger and had awaited his return.

The earth quaked with an unforgiving resolve and the longer the ground shook the more brutal the tremors.

The squirrel finally reached its family and they ran around in excitement for a few seconds before they took off and joined the other scurrying families.

The woodland creatures headed for stable ground but they were interrupted by loud booms under the earth. Some froze, while others ran faster even still.

BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!

The possums dropped where they stood and played dead while the rabbits ran with the speed of a leopard.

The squirrel thought, ‘you can always count on those possum idiots to act as bait’, as he continued to stay close to his family as they made their escape through the woods together.

Something was trying to break through the earth as evidenced by the large cracks it started to produce.

Suddenly everything went quiet. The whipping wind was the only sound that could be heard for miles.

The squirrel sensed a deadly foreboding and decided to run in a diagonal direction. He squeaked to his wife and son and they followed his lead as did some of the other animals that were within earshot.

Abruptly……a large giant fist, the size of three boulders put together broke through the earth and it was connected to an even larger wrist and forearm. The hairy appendage reached high in the sky before descending back to earth casting a dark shadow on all the furry creatures and crashed back down through the ground killing everything in its path except the squirrel, its family and all the other animals that were smart enough to follow his path.

CHAPTER 1

Even though it was almost lunch time, the sweltering heat of the Thursday morning, mixed with the skin burning pitch from the roof of the building he was working on, was adequate enough to make Jackson Artwell promise, as he always did, to quit this stinking commercial roofing job and start his own barbeque business.

People would come from miles around when Jackson would work his magic behind the charcoal filled stainless steel stallion that was his grilling weapon. His mouth watered whenever he thought about his fall off the bone award winning ribs and his juicy beer brats. He had never actually won an award because he’d never entered any contests. He couldn’t really afford too, not with a wife and two sons at home to support. But he knew if he did enter a contest, he would win hands down.

The roofing job did pay well and it was enough to have a comfortable life, if it had just been him and his wife, Alexa. But it wasn’t just the two of them; after two years of dating and three years of marriage, Alexa had gotten pregnant and given birth to their twin boys, Johnson and Jefferson who were now sixteen months old. So having babies under the age of two and factoring in the twin thing, it was hard to have any extra money. Even with the swanky, downtown, mortgage free loft Alexa inherited from her Aunt Cornelia just a year before, money was still tight.

Jackson had never lived in downtown St. Louis, Missouri before; he was born and raised in the country and he was a country boy through and through. He sometimes missed the bon fires and the all night drinking parties with his buddies, but he gladly traded them for the life he now had.

When he and Alexa started dating and getting serious, they had moved into a one bedroom apartment on the outskirts of town which he loved because it had the comfort and quiet of the country but with enough businesses and things to do of a city. It was the perfect medium.

They paid there bills on time and they had money saved. They always had date night on Friday and had mind altering sex whenever they felt the whim. That