Mystery of the Old Abandoned House

By Vincent McKalin

It's the first day of the bird shooting season. Eight friends are competing against each other.
The sport is interrupted by rain, and the only shelter nearby is an old abandoned house which is said to be haunted. They have a choice: either getting soaked to the bone or sheltering in the house. Which is the best option? Six choose the latter and find out the hardest way what haunted really means.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vincent McKalin
• Release date: May 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458140968

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Mystery of the Old Abandoned House

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Mystery of the Old Abandoned House

Chapter 1

Qu is an acquaintance of mine. He told me the following tale sometime ago. It is a strange tale, and one, which I think, is quite interesting. However, I suspect that Qu stretched it somewhat. What do you think?

Naado Alin, known as Qu to his associates, a twenty-four years’ old auto electrician who operated his own auto repair shop, whose favorite pastimes was playing video games on his computer and shooting birds during the bird shooting season, was lying in his hospital bed. It was visiting hours, and his girlfriend, Kay-Ann, and his three closest friends, Chris, Jason and Oral were visiting him.

Qu had developed severe stomach cramps a day earlier, and had been brought to the hospital.

Qu had had similar cramps before, though not as severe, and so had diagnosed his condition as Gastroenteritis. Because he had assumed the cramps were symptoms of Gastroenteritis, he had chosen not to take Kay-Ann’s advice to seek medical attention, instead telling her that the cramps would soon go away. He had medicine for the relief of Gastroenteritis. He took four doses in an eight-hour period. The relief was nowhere in sight, however. Usually, two doses would have done the trick.

Two hours after he had taken the second dose and feeling as if he was going to die from the cramps, he gave in to Kay-Ann. She rushed with him to the hospital, driving as if she had stolen the car.

After having driven so recklessly to the hospital, Kay-Ann realized that it was utterly unnecessary to have driven like that, as the medical professionals didn’t consider Qu’s case an emergency.

Qu’s body temperature and blood pressure were measured almost immediately after he was wheeled into casualty, but that was all the attention he got for the next one hour and ten minutes, despite his moans and groans.

The ultrasound and x-ray results showed nothing life threatening, and the doctors officially diagnosed his condition as a severe case of intestinal flu, that Qu had suspected all along.

Kay-Ann, who appeared quite worried, as opposed to Qu, who joked with her and the hospital’s staff members, in between groans, was assured by the doctors that Qu would be up and running in a day or two.