Mr. Stery: Insanity

By Carma Lynn Craig

This book is fiction based on true events. It was inspired by a young woman who is trying desperately to raise her five children alone. Her loving husband has an evil temper and has tragically died. Yet he is not done, for he has returned as a ghost living in her home for ten long years. His torment has not ended for he uses the tin man that she is so fond of, by moving him from place to place in her house. She feels his spirit around her, and she knows in her heart that he is not through.

This book tells of the love, the hardships, and the mysterious happenings that go on--until one day she finds a handsome, loving man and falls head over heels for him. This enrages her ghost and makes him go crazy and attempt a new form of vindictive haunting.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: May 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781636929118

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Mr. Stery

Insanity

Carma Lynn Craig

Copyright © 2022 Carma Lynn Craig

All rights reserved

First Edition

NEWMAN SPRINGS PUBLISHING

320 Broad Street

Red Bank, NJ 07701

First originally published by Newman Springs Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-63692-910-1 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-63692-911-8 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

To my beloved mom and dad. I did it for you.

Contents

The Hill7

The Climb11

Coincidence15

Encounter23

Pain and Suffering32

True Love40

Changes48

Moving On56

Stolen63

Regretful Revenge71

Mental Illness79

Breathtaking87

Chapter 1

The Hill

She drove as fast as

she could in the wrong direction. Her heart raced as she slid around corners and her truck fishtailed along the road. Her heart was about to burst in many pieces. She knew she had to be strong—and she was. She finally said goodbye. This is Delilah, a twenty-two-year-old single mother of five.

In a drunken state of mind, she unloaded her secret surprise: the thing she knew he loved so much. A huge black tin man that guarded their entrance to their home. Then she shoved it under her house to hide it. If he ever knew she took it, he definitely would have her ass. She cut her fingers as she shoved it farther and farther. The untouched dirt was getting all over her face, and cobwebs were getting in her eyes. She pulled the siding down over the hole and ran inside.

The next morning, she awoke to hear her parakeets singing blissfully. The kids were all already up playing games and eating cereal. She went in the living room and everything seemed great—until she had remembered what she did last night. Oh gosh, she thought, what have I done this time? Oh crap, she had remembered the tin man, hiding it under the house. She hung her head in shame. She thought, How can I fix this?

The kids had no idea she had taken it or where it was. She didn’t leak a word; she had broken it off with Dawson, their dad. They had been together for so long, so many years. The children loved him so much. Dawson and her loved each other, but they didn’t live together. They each had their own house. They were both too headstrong and wanted their own way of things at all times, so she raised the children on her own and he would just come visit. The kids had no idea she had ended it with a trail of tears running down the highway with a huge tin man in the back of her truck hanging out.

Immediately, the phone is ringing, and it was him wanting to know what is going on with them and that his tin man had been stolen. He contacted the laws and filed a report. She told him she had no idea who in the world would have done such a thing and how awful that was.

A few days passed by and moons later, the kids were going to school and she and Dawson would hang out and go out to eat and ride around and just spend time together. The romance was beginning to take off with a spark. Delilah ended up taking him back and they were going to make it work this time.

The love she had for this man was invincible; he could do no wrong. When they crossed paths, she could feel his skin like a fire, and she couldn’t resist at any given time to be alone with him and with each other, enjoying the heavenly pleasures which made her a woman. She loved hard, deep, passionately as their bodies would glow under the moonlight and as he pressed his love into her. She accepted with silent cries of true love. As she held him close to her body, he released his pleasure call with a deep growl. Both were left breathless, lying still.

He had the bluest eyes, like the skies never ended. He had an unexplainable power over her every decision; every emotion soon depended on his approval. He now had her right where he wanted her, in the palm of his hands.

They built a beautiful log cabin home on some acres and moved in together, and everyone was very happy. She was going to sell the home she had lived in and, boom, then she remembered the tin man under the house. How would she explain this lie and thievery to him? This will destroy his trust in me. She was trembling in fear of telling him. She knew he would be very happy to have it back, but will it destroy them? So for a bit, she was going to leave it, but then as she battled it in her mind for days, she decided to tell him the truth and give it back to him.

Dawson, she said, come here. I have something to tell you. He walked over there, smiling, gave her a big kiss, and held her and looked deep into her eyes. She said, I cannot bear this anymore. I have to tell you something.

In a mean, manly manner, he swung her away from him and said, I knew you changed your mind. Who is he? Who is he? Who are you fucking besides me?

All at once he was throwing things and tearing up the house, screaming and going crazy. She tried to calm down his rage; there was no stopping him.

She tried to explain. It wasn’t a man at all. She ran outside, telling the kids, Let’s go! Everyone was running to her car, getting in. He began shooting at them with a shotgun blasting all around them. She just drove away as fast as she could to get to safety. This is indeed why she knew she couldn’t live with him anymore.

She went ahead and moved back into her house and calmed her children down, though in a slight turn of fate, they tried to calm her down. All she did was cry and cry and flinch to every loud sound there was to be heard. She put an order on Dawson to just stay away from them and go on with life the way it was before.

She became lonely, missing him and wanting to talk to him. The kids missed him also. Life was okay without him, but she wanted to hold him close and hear him breathe. Of course, she called him. Was this the big mistake, or the best thing she could have ever done? He was known for a bad temper, but only if he thought you were being untrue.

He came over that day promising to change and to not get angry. She said, I have got something to tell you and you must stay calm and listen. Remember when your tin man came up missing and no one ever knew what happened to him? He replied yes. She continued, I took him. I still have him. He is under my house. I had hid him there. I am so sorry. I was drunk and I was angry, and I thought if I took it, I would feel safe like you were here with me.

He just sat in silence and amazement. Where is it?

They went outside and she opened up the siding and there he laid. He pulled him out and let out an angry laugh that screeched, like nothing anyone had ever heard.

He put him in the back of his truck and drove off, didn’t say goodbye nothing. He tore the road up. No phone calls, no visits for days.

Chapter 2

The Climb

Days and months seemed to

fly by, but actually it was only a few days. Delilah became very depressed and saddened. She wished she had never taken the tin man to begin with. Or maybe never told him the truth. Or maybe he just used this as an excuse to stay away from her. Her mind was wandering, playing tricks on her.

Unexpectedly, he showed up but only wanted to pick the kids up. He didn’t want anything to do with her. She held in