Up the Airy Mountain

By James D. Macdonald and Debra Doyle

"Up the Airy Mountain" is a short young adult horror story that originally appeared in A Nightmare's Dozen edited by Michael Stearns.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James D. Macdonald
• Release date: May 30, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458191564

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Up the Airy Mountain

by

Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

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Copyright 1996-2011 by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

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This work originally appeared in A Nightmare's Dozen, edited by Michael Stearns. Harcourt Brace, October, 1996. ISBN 0-15-201247-8

Up the Airy Mountain

by

Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald

As soon as I put down the phone on Saturday morning I knew that Val was planning to get herself killed.

All she'd said was, I found a place that didn't smell right, so I thought I'd go check it out in the daytime.

I said, Wait for me, and that was it.

Thing is, Val thinks she's immortal. I know she isn't. So I grabbed my backpack from behind my bedroom door and went out to the pickup. I had to brush a layer of fresh snow off the Beast's windshield before I could see well enough to drive. I hadn't gone anywhere off the farm since getting back from school on Friday afternoon before it started snowing, even though there'd been a dance later that same night and I sort of have a steady girlfriend.

But the sort-of-girlfriend is Val, and Val…well, Val is a werewolf. It means she can't eat pizza because of the garlic; she's always hungry because all that supernatural healing ability, strength, and speed