SuperNaturally

By James Walker Riley

SuperNaturally is an anthology of scary stories perfect for pre-sleep reading, best done in a creaky house with a spooky wind blowing. “Ascot Ramble” involves a unique relationship between a boy and his neckwear. In “Banjo Music,” you’ll experience an eerie vibration. Undergo a psychological cleansing with “Catharsis.” In “Singularity,” a vengeful entity comes calling at the beach house.

• Language: English
• Publisher: James Walker Riley
• Release date: Jul 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311712998

James Walker Riley

Born in Tampa, Florida but grew up in sunny Michigan (the land of the white, flaky sunshine you can ski or sled on). Now living in North Carolina where sun is really sun unless it’s liquid sunshine instead of the rare flaky kind. I work in a local community college writing center helping students perfect their essays (I'm veeerry picky).

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SuperNaturally

James Walker Riley

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This book is a work of fiction. All characters, situations, locations, and other elements of this book are from the imagination or the author and are fictitious or used in a fictitious manner

Table of Contents

Ascot Ramble

Banjo Music

Catharsis

Singularity

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ASCOT RAMBLE

By James Walker Riley

His mother's constant beratings and beatings stressed Steven Baker's psyche to the breaking point. The last attack triggered his melt down.

Steven’s reality snapped in slow motion. It distended a molecule at a time. The molecules twisted and tore apart with the speed of cold molasses dribbling over frozen pancakes. In his brain, the crack accelerated neuron by neuron. The forces acting to tear reality apart cohered like a laser beam on a minute, resistant node. His body flash-heated, and he saw cohesion collapse, twist, and melt like red velvet ice cream in the heat of the sun. Nothing retained its proper place and form.

It took a split second for his sanity to snap and the Dali-esque hallucinations to start and another split second for him to come back to the real world. An utterly changed world inside and outside.

Steven’s mother lay on the floor, the victim of a rapist who was now dissipating into the night. He had become an orphan at sixteen. The trip into surrealism tempered his reality. The death of his mother made the trip even better. Steven dressed. He buried Mother in the crawl space of her old house. She and her cat were now together, along with his older brother, who died the month before of some illness. Something Dick ate. Mother had wondered what happened to Dick.

Mother's Social Security checks continued.

A year later, Steven Baker stood in the men's department at JC Brook. The plain, blue silk ascot hanging in front of him demanded his attention. He reached out and fondled the cloth, caressed it lovingly, the sensuality of doing so almost sexual. The cool silk fabric--soft, supple, and smooth--caressed his fingers. The