How The Bayou Bleeds (The Skull's Grin #2)
(By C.M. Allen)
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And this short story finds all kinds of evil...
It’s just another evening for Sam, everyone’s favourite psychotic murderer, cannibal, and all-around charming swamp man, as he’s stoking the flames of the almighty Shack’s fire and cooking up his most recent jambalaya. The crickets and frogs are loud, the bones of his last victim are still decorating the trees and porch, and the swamps are happy with all the sin that’s been drained away.
But peace never lasts long.
Soon, Sam has his ear to the ground as he feels something lurking in the distant bayou beyond the swamp limits. Even Jack, Sam’s best friend and the most interesting dead-and-empty skull you’ll ever meet, has this new darkness about him. Jack’s power goes beyond what any mortal can understand, a power that manifests in his sheer presence, yet this skull only plays the part of Judgement in the designs of the Shack.
Thing is, Sam never ventures beyond his swamps. Doing so hurts him. But this new evil’s got a different kind of mean in it, and there’s something else beside it that Sam can’t put his finger on.
Sam has no choice: if he’s to feed the fires of the Shack and the roar in his stomach, he needs to confront this deep evil and eradicate it from his bayou. So he straps his knife, the skull, and his sense of righteousness to his belt and heads out, losing his mind and his immortality in the process.
Because in the end, a hundred years can really catch up to a guy.
This mini tale is written in several unusual styles, placing much of the tale's trust in Sam's righteous hands as he slowly loses his mind, How the Bayou Bleeds travels swamps never seen before, redirecting dark fantasy and horror into the shocking paths of human darkness, and joining philosophy, blood, psychological fear, and the disturbing nature of an eternal skull in one tightly woven short story. You’ll never guess what the gators are thinking…”
