Dark Fields: Cole Wright

By Sean Monaghan

South Dakota. Sunset. 

One dark day in July, Brad crashes his busted light plane in a dusty cornfield. Not great for his weekend plans.

Not great for anything.

Passing by, Cole Wright stops to lend a hand.

Which might just plunge them both into something more dangerous than plane wrecks.

A standalone Cole Wright story.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Triple V Publishing
• Release date: Jan 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201150389

Sean Monaghan

Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov’s, his story “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles”, set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov’s Readers Poll Award, for best short story. He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award. Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music. Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov’s, his story “Crimson Birds of Small Miracles”, set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov’s Readers Poll Award, for best short story. He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award. Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music.

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Dark Fields

Dark Fields

A Cole Wright Short Story

Sean Monaghan

Triple V Publishing

Copyright © 2022 Sean Monaghan

All rights reserved.

Published by Triple V Publishing

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Cover illustration

Thomas B. (Field), Dieter Klinkowski (Figure), both Pixabay

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Cover design

Connor-Alejandro Menthony / Sean Monaghan

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This is a work of fiction. All characters, places and incidents described in this publication are used fictitiously, or are entirely fictional.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Cole Wright - The Arrival

8. Chapter One

9. Chapter Two

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Sean Monaghan

Chapter One

It was a dark day in July when Brad Weekes crashed his busted light plane outside of Jesslton, South Dakota.

The brilliant tangerine colors that had been filling the sunset sky had fled and the clouds were closing in, shutting away the light of the stars and distant cities.

The sounds above had been wonderful. Just the hum of the engine, the whisper of the wings.

The aircraft was an open-cockpit home-built disaster from the start. Crafted from the remains of a kitset that Weekes had found decaying in back of his newly purchased farm, in one of the dozen or more wooden sheds down the side of a valley.

Weekes had bought the farm on the back of lottery winnings from his father. Over three million still in the account when the old guy passed.

Weekes lay in damp grass now, still dazed. He stared up at the patterns in the low clouds. Mostly black and variations of gray. Nothing friendly about it at all.

He'd heard the spluttering of the engine, and felt the shimmy in the stick, and had known then he was going down.

Should have made for home earlier. Before dark.

From nearby came the cooing of some animal. A bird, most likely. Evening plans disrupted by the incident of an aviation accident.

There was the smell of corn on the air too. That strong, thick, earthy scent of strong plants growing.

He could be anywhere. South Dakota wasn't exactly swarming with people. Could be a hundred miles from rescue.

He listened some more. Maybe