The Grubbs

By Mike Ramon

A short story. Paul is curious when a new family moves in next door. The Grubbs have a boy his own age, and he hopes he can make a new friend. But the Grubbs have a terrible secret.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mike Ramon
• Release date: Aug 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310695445

Mike Ramon

Born and bred in the Midwest.

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The Grubbs

Mike Ramon

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1

The Grubbs moved into the old Funkhouser house on a Sunday. It was early summer in Cedar Falls. Paul watched from the front porch of his own house next door. A man and a woman, and a girl who Paul assumed was their daughter, made trips back and forth between the moving truck and the house, carrying boxes, chairs, and beds that had been broken up into pieces, frame, headboard, box spring, mattress. Paul thought the girl looked like she was maybe around fifteen; if he was right, that would make her three years older than himself. He was a little disappointed. He hadn’t been best friends with Jerry Funkhouser or anything, but it was