Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound 14

By Christopher D. Carter

After coming back home to Baltimore, Crush and Pound continue their journey to find answers to Sherry Lance's disappearance, and their journey takes them into the dangerous depths of Baltimore's Inner Harbor! Meanwhile, Dr. Tatum, Seth, and the STUN agent Steven are confined to a cave by the mysterious Lord Felino in the Sierra Nevadas! And the introduction of Cindy Small, a young woman who finds her whole life changed by the Child of Stone!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christopher D. Carter
• Release date: Aug 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781940451299

Christopher D. Carter

Christopher D. Carter is an engineer by trade. After spending many hours of free time drawing, painting, and writing, he decided to unleash a unique universe of characters upon the worlds of science fiction and comic book fandom.

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Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound 14

by Christopher D. Carter, © 2015

Text and Illustration Copyright © 2015 Christopher D. Carter

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Also by Christopher Carter available at ebook retailers:

Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound 1 – 5 (Book 1)

Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound 6 – 12 (Book 2)

Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound Annual 3, 13 – 21 (Book 3)

Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound Annual 1

Uncanny Tales of Crush and Pound Annual 2

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

To Be Continued

About the Author

Chapter 1

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Crush and Pound

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Crush laid in his bed and stared at the ceiling for what seemed like hours.

What am I doing with my life? he asked himself, and then he stared as he paused, waiting for an answer. None came. It was still dark outside when the first chirp of a morning bird sounded outside of his window, and he yawned and leaned over the side of the bed to look at the time. It was 5:01 a.m., and he was exhausted from the sleepless night he had had there at home. He believed that he would have been happy to be home, but he had not enjoyed his first night back in his own bed as much as he would have liked. No matter which direction he laid in the bed, all that he could see in his mind was Calvin Smith’s face, and the thought of his failure to return the old man to his daughter weighed on his mind heavily. He and Pound had made that trip through the portal to find and retrieve the old man who had been kidnapped and led into a distant world by a little green man, and they had tried to bring him back home. They really had every intention of bringing him right back to his daughter, but they had found a huge mining camp full of kidnapped people from earth, and they felt that they should do something to free them while they were there. Calvin’s health was failing, and it was very possible that he would not have made it back anyways, but in the meantime, Crush and Pound had gotten swept up in a small war between competing queens. Though Crush had worked extremely hard to make the dire situation better, all that he felt like he had done was make the situation that much worse. After all, when they left, the queens were still fighting with each other, and the one thing they were supposed to do, they had not succeeded in doing. Calvin Smith had not made it out of that world alive, and Crush was having a difficult time forgiving himself for his failure.

He leaned over and looked at the digital clock again, and the light of the red LEDs reflected on one side of the necklace that the director of the DAM had given him. He had placed the amulet there last night before he stretched out across the bed, and it seemed to stare at him in the dark as if it was watching him. The outer shell of the encased eye glared red, and a shiver went down his spine as he stared at it. Crush reached one arm out and clasped the glass casing in his hand, and he rolled it beneath the box springs where he could no longer see it, and more importantly, where it could no longer see him. With a deep sigh, he rolled over onto his back, and he relaxed for a moment in an effort to shut down the many thoughts that clouded his mind. A few minutes later, he was asleep again, and it was not until 8:16 a.m. that he finally awoke with a start. Crush sat up startled in the bed as daylight crept past the edges of the blinds, and propped up with both hands at his sides, he listened closely for the sound that had woken him up so suddenly. A few seconds later, the loud rat-a-tat-tat repeated again. It was an obnoxious sound, like a toy jackhammer on a tin can, and he reached up to the blinds above the bed to look outside. At the corner of the building, a downspout stretched from the edge of the roof to the ground, and perched near the top of the spout was a red-headed woodpecker. With a violent rocking of its head, the woodpecker’s pointed beak struck the impregnable downspout repeatedly, and Crush grinned at the impossibility and absurdness of the bird’s headbanging.

And I thought I was the only one wasting efforts, Crush said to himself as he stood to his feet and stretched. He scratched his belly and decided