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Adventure Seed Fiction: The Nevada Pestilence Part 2
Tweet The Nevada Pestilence Part II by Stu Venable, Jr. The stench, as I found purchase to gain footing upon the caboose’s railings, was unlike anything I had ever experienced. Having served with the 51st Ohio Infantry, I was not unfamiliar with the smell of rotting human flesh. This however seemed to me to be the smell of cooking human flesh, a scent with which I was far less familiar, having only caught the briefest whiff of it when an occasional wound need cauterization. But my senses were met with the cannibalistic equivalent of some festive feast. Deep within my mind, the memories of my ancestors met the smell with revulsion and horror. I tensed my jaw and looked more closely into the interior of the caboose. It was then that I noticed that … Read entire article »
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Adventure Seed Fiction: The Nevada Pestilence Part 1
Tweet The Nevada Pestilence Part 1 by Stu Venable Personal Journal of John Haunt November 1872 Some time ago, I was told by the conductor, a tall gaunt man with graying beard and mustache, that we passed through the Utah territory. We spoke briefly of the parched nature of the landscape, the sparse signs of life being only the occasional scrub brush, tenaciously hanging on to the cracked clay earth, sapping the last bits of moisture to sustain its mean existence. That such events happened in this forsaken landscape has not escaped my notice. For it is in these strange alien wildernesses, the gaps between civilization and order, that mankind finds the true threats. After my brief conversation with the conductor, I closed my eyes to rest,. Fitful as my sleep would be with the constant jostling of the … Read entire article »
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