What Ever Happened to Summerville I-IV: Excerpts From Flash Master

By Joel Stottlemire

Master of Flash Fiction, Joel Stottlemire's humorous homage to Golden Era Comics. Excerpted from "Flash Master."

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Dryden Experiment
• Release date: Sep 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9781942138020

Joel Stottlemire

I'm the founder of the Dryden Experiment and Chief Editor of the Dryden House publishing. We use a creative commons model to allow authors and artists to share their talents and their marketing reach without having to sell rights. Contact us at [e-mail]

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What Ever Happened to Summerville I-IV: Excerpts From Flash Master

What Ever Happened to Summerville I-IV Excerpts from Flash Master

Copyright 2014 Joel Stottlemire

Published by The Dryden Experiment

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What Ever Happened to Summerville Part I - Release

The air wasn’t hot, but it was dry enough to taste almost sweet on Tom’s tongue. He panted and heaved another armful of dirt out of the hole. He’d been digging all morning and his hole was a brown crater in the middle of his parents’ smooth, green back lawn. He’d cut through the warm sod, past the wiggling, oozy ends of worms, and was now digging at the cold clay underneath with his blunt fingers.

He’d had the dream again, the one where the people from inside the earth came up from his lawn and played with him. They told him there were no parents inside the earth and you could stay up as long as you wanted. They told him there was cotton