Happy Home

By Scot McAtee

What makes a happy home? We all have our own ideas. But what happens when isolation, the loss of a child and a genetic predisposition to madness cause us to snap? What becomes of our happy home then? Is it completely destroyed or do we fabricate a new reality for ourselves and warp our world into what we need it to be so that we can survive? This subtle yet disturbing tale introduces us to a quaint pioneer family who experiences just such a situation.

Read this unsettling story and then before you judge our pitiful young anti-hero, ask yourself this question: Who am I to judge her?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scot McAtee
• Release date: Jan 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310527272

Scot McAtee

Scot McAtee started out his professional life teaching High School English in Northern Indiana. After a year long stint in Inchon, Korea, teaching English to native Koreans, he returned to Indiana where he teaches High School classes in Business and Computer Sciences. He spends his free time creating movies, video games, digital music and writing other sci-fi and horror novels. His favorite authors are George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley and Clive Cussler. And although it may be hard for Westerners to see the likeness, his Korean students frequently called him Brad Pitt.

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Happy Home

By Scot McAtee

Published by Scot McAtee at Smashwords

Copyright 2015 Scot McAtee

Other titles by Scot McAtee

Novels

Zombie Zero

Zombie Zero: Survival of the Deadest

I am Food

Short Story Collection

Casket Creek

Short Fiction

Zombie Theater

The Executioner

Monster Proof

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In a thickly forested gully miles from anywhere, a solitary man tramped home to his quaint cabin and his quiet wife. He glowered straight ahead as he trudged along the wide dirt path at the bottom of the ravine, a path he had created himself over the years. He didn’t gaze around him as he went. He seemed unaware of the natural beauty around him. He was intent upon reaching his destination.

As the soil of the path was packed so tightly from his twice-a-day trip through the gully, he was able to travel swiftly, making no more noise than necessary. Squirrels and other small fauna took no notice of him, even as he passed within a few feet of them. They knew he posed no threat and so they ignored him. In a way, he was one of them. He went about his business, not bothering