Better Halves
“Better Halves”
BY KC GRIFANT
Credit: Heather Landry
Something wasn’t quite right, but Anne couldn’t place it. At first she thought it was the weather, casting a gloomy sheen over their summer beach trip.
“Stupid New England,” she said. An apt belated birthday present, she thought sourly. A face peered at her through the passenger window reflection: her own, frowning and fragmented against the rain flecks.
“It’s a week out of the city,” said Derick, ever the optimist. “We can get lobster.”
The GPS spoke up and her husband yanked the wheel. A small wooden sign with the inn’s name in white script, clattering against a post barely lit by the headlights, was the first sign of a town since passing the IHOP half an hour back.
…read the rest for free at the Lovecraft eZine.
This story and illustration first appeared in the Lovecraft eZine issue #36 (illustrator’s work on the piece here). The story was reprinted in the following:
See Through My Eyes: A Ghost Mystery Anthology
The story was selected for the featured discussion in The Thing in the Labyrinth Bookclub December 2021 session.
It is always refreshing to read a new take on a horror story.
KC Grifant 