Chapter Five and the Axe-Wielding Maniac

By Marie Sexton

Author Joshua Franklin Hill has a bad case of writer’s block. When an axe-wielding maniac knocks on his front door and asks to dig up his living room floor, he figures his Monday from hell is complete.

But an axe-wielding maniac may be just what Josh needs.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Marie Sexton
• Release date: Dec 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9780991415380

Marie Sexton

Marie Sexton lives in Colorado. She’s a fan of just about anything that involves muscular young men piling on top of each other. In particular, she loves the Denver Broncos and enjoys going to the games with her husband. Her imaginary friends often tag along. Marie has one daughter, two cats, and one dog, all of whom seem bent on destroying what remains of her sanity. She loves them anyway.

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Chapter Five and the Axe-Wielding Maniac

By Marie Sexton

Copyright © 2014, Marie Sexton

Editing by Sue Laybourn

Cover art by A.J. Corza

Formatting by Kelly Smith

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Published by Marie Sexton, 2014

EBook ISBN: 978-9914153-8-0

I was rewriting the first paragraph of chapter five for at least the eight-hundredth time when the axe-wielding maniac knocked on my front door.

And yes, since you asked, of course it was a Monday.

Okay, truth be told, eight hundred might be a bit of an exaggeration. It was closer to thirty. And it wasn’t actually an axe. It was a pickaxe. Here’s the thing though: a strapping young man strolling through the Oregon woods on a sunny August morning might have put a regular axe to industrious use. A pickaxe, on the other hand? Only a homicidal maniac needed one of those. He carried it slung over his right shoulder, Paul Bunyan-style, and if I needed any more evidence of his foul intentions, I found it in his left hand: a crowbar.

I stood in the cool near-dark inside my cabin, squinting through the peephole into the bright sunny day, wondering what exactly I should do. Turning around and going right back to bed seemed like my best bet.

Hello? the maniac called as he reached out to bang on the door with the curved end of the crowbar. Good morning!

It seemed he wasn’t planning on going away, and while normally I’d be thrilled to have a handsome young man practically beating down my front door, I felt sure this one was going to cause me trouble. He bounced excitedly on the balls of his toes, grinning ear to ear. I wondered if all murderous psychos were so cheery when they knocked on their victim’s doors. Then again, I had to wonder how many psychos bothered to knock at all. It was a fact I might look up later, assuming I lived through the morning.

Who are you and what do you want? I yelled through the door.

His excitement seemed to kick into overdrive at the sound of my voice. He bounced a little

Reviews for Chapter Five and the Axe-Wielding Maniac

[amdrane2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Cute little romance.

[crankypants16 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

just perfect

[jules0623 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Well paced and quite funny.

[kaetrin_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Free short on author's site - really good sexy short about a writer who's staying at his cabin in the woods and suffering from writer's block. A young man bearing an axe and a crowbar arrives and hijinx ensue. I really liked it.