There Comes a Moment...
A Haunting in Highland
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Jon’s clear blue eyes snapped open, wide open, from what had been a dead sleep, and stared near, uncomprehendingly, at the clock at his bedside. It said 5:23. Something had happened, he knew. He was afraid to breathe, but didn’t know why. He was perspiring, trembling slightly, and his mind was struggling fiercely to understand, to make sense of this, or even, in those first few seconds, to have a coherent thought. The clock turned to 5:24. He stared at it, his head still on his pillow, as afraid as he had ever been in his life. Then the scream came. It was the second scream, he instantly realized. A woman’s scream. A jarringly loud, piercing scream that somehow seemed to him to contain all the fear and grief of the world. And it seemed to be coming from right outside his bedroom window.
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During the early dawn of a summer morning in July, Jonathon Parker is awakened by a scream and runs outside to find his neighbor standing over a dead body. Suddenly, the harmony that has surrounded his peaceful cul-de-sac for years is shattered.
An eyeless, hairless head of a corpse is not what Jon expects to see on his suburban lawn first thing in the morning, yet overnight, he and his neighbors are unwillingly cast into a nightmare of horrific proportions. All of a sudden, something is consuming his quiet little neighborhood in Highland, Illinois, and no one can explain why. Unfortunately, the first dead body will not be the last, and what follows in the days and especially the nights to come will forever change the lives of those who live on one street, in the middle of one town, in one part of the country.
The Devonshire cul-de-sac residents are decent people who thought they were ready for anything ... but it turns out no one is ready to face a ruthless killer seeking vengeance.
About the Author
Andrew Carmitchel, a former English teacher and school administrator, resides in Highland, Illinois. He is the author of The Wizard on Oak Street, Suspended, and All of My Animals, a book of children's poetry.