JELLYBEANS
Jellybeans, published here on paper for the first time, is the story of three very strange houses- the Murder Cabin, the House of the Full Moon, and the House of Flies -all three of which have one very disturbing thing in common: Kiana Mast.
Kiana comes from a very odd east Tennessee family, and she knows things. When she sends her high school boyfriend Adam on midnight ventures to each of three very mysterious houses out in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, he has no idea what he’s in for. Moreover, Adam has no idea that Kiana has an irresistible and sinister influence over him that is growing more powerful and frightening by the day . . . and night.
Kiana comes from a very odd east Tennessee family, and she knows things. When she sends her high school boyfriend Adam on midnight ventures to each of three very mysterious houses out in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, he has no idea what he’s in for. Moreover, Adam has no idea that Kiana has an irresistible and sinister influence over him that is growing more powerful and frightening by the day . . . and night.
I’ll begin by saying that at the time the first white settlers built their log cabins in east Tennessee, the Cherokee Indians had already been living there for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years. It was their land and their home. They were a spiritual people, and they believed that everything lived, everything had a soul, even the rocks and the trees and the lakes.
They also believed that evil spirits lived in the woods surrounding their villages and that these demon ghosts lay in wait for unsuspecting wanderers and careless hunters, sometimes killing them, but more often stealing their minds and souls. The Cherokee knew, too, that the demons preferred girls and young women. An unsuspecting female victim, for example, would often be left alive to do the bidding of one of these horrifying demons but would have no memory of her encounter with him. So that the girl would serve her incubus faithfully, the spirit would blot out her conscience and give her strange alluring powers. As the girl slid ever deeper into her captor’s cave of evil, otherworldly forces would occupy her mind and body, forcing her true self out, and she would begin to do things that were completely out of her nature. Without even being aware of what was happening, she would grow stronger by the hour, by the day, by the week, until, at last, she herself would be as frightening as her demon overlord.
Download a sample: jellybeans_sample.pdf
They also believed that evil spirits lived in the woods surrounding their villages and that these demon ghosts lay in wait for unsuspecting wanderers and careless hunters, sometimes killing them, but more often stealing their minds and souls. The Cherokee knew, too, that the demons preferred girls and young women. An unsuspecting female victim, for example, would often be left alive to do the bidding of one of these horrifying demons but would have no memory of her encounter with him. So that the girl would serve her incubus faithfully, the spirit would blot out her conscience and give her strange alluring powers. As the girl slid ever deeper into her captor’s cave of evil, otherworldly forces would occupy her mind and body, forcing her true self out, and she would begin to do things that were completely out of her nature. Without even being aware of what was happening, she would grow stronger by the hour, by the day, by the week, until, at last, she herself would be as frightening as her demon overlord.
Download a sample: jellybeans_sample.pdf
