Six Short Stories

By Sibyl Lyons

Six short fiction stories weave in and out of the corridors of reality and surreal. Themes of morality, ritual abuse, paranoia and melancholy resonate with compelling eeriness and terror. Shifting paradigms tear the readers heart and jangle their nerves. Haunting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sibyl Lyons
• Release date: Dec 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311115362

Sibyl Lyons

Southern author, Sybil Lyons, genres are short story horror, scrapbook publications and a partial autobiography. Her characters are poignant, strong and memorable.

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SIX SHORT STORIES

By Sybil Lyons

Smashwords Edition

Copyright 2015 Sybil Lyons

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Dreamer

Chapter 2 The Haircut

Chapter 3 Voices

Chapter 4 Ester and Henry

Chapter 5 Lambikins

Chapter 6 Nunzio

Chapter 1

DREAMER

This is bad. Oliver’s skin was blanched and his breathing rapid.

It could get worse and probably will. Edgar antagonized his brother.

The lamp lay shattered on the floor.

He’s going to be so mad. Oliver dolefully stared at the shards of glass on the hardwood. It was not his fault, he knew, but he would get the blame. He always got the blame for whatever criminal acts Edgar perpetrated. Even when Miss Holland next door had seen Edgar whipping the tops off all her hyacinths had complained to their father, Edgar still managed to convince his father it was Oliver’s idea. Edgar said Oliver gave him the whip and told him to do it, and he had been scared not to.

Oliver didn’t blame his dad. Oliver was the oldest, and the biggest, bigger than most boys his age. Already five eight in the fifth grade, and at least forty pounds overweight, he felt he looked like some grotesque character in a barbaric video game. He was a disappointment to his dad.

Dad, the shining surgeon, curing people, saving lives... dad the hero. By contrast, Oliver was developmentally delayed. That’s what they called it, that and mentally impaired. It had to do with his mother drinking while she was pregnant with him. Maybe she knew what a freak she was going to have for a baby. Maybe that’s why she drank. That’s what Edgar said. Oliver just knew he didn’t want to be stupid, to be the brunt of jokes and ridicule, and blamed for everything, but that was his lot in life.

It’s my lot in life. Oliver said the words out loud.

Yes, Edgar quickly encouraged. "It is. But ya know