THE YOUGHIOGHENY SCREAMS

[Absolutely*Kate]

THE YOUGHIOGHENY SCREAMS

By ~ Absolutely*Kate

Lying beside Gabe was his best bud, Duke. It had been a long night, but they'd made it, thank God, they'd made it. Dawn shot light shards through a cathedral of cottonwoods on the west side of the ravine. Thankfully, the copse provided cover from where the hard-pressed duo had scrambled up doubletime from the brown river's edges churning danger below, cross currents of mud and fear still swirling the mighty Youghiogheny. They knew it -- today was far from last night . . . but far from over as well.

Gabe listened, cautiously -- nope, only sound o'reverberation was Duke's steady, even, snoreless breathing, comprehending even in sleep what a sound out of place could bring down upon them in this godforsaken suddenly out-of-sorts place -- he slept the sleep of one who has come across challenge, met it well and yet held self and safety in deep reverent check.

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CONTINUED INTO DANGER'S RAPID RABIDS ... OVER ... AT THE BIJOU ... WHERE YOU CAN WATCH FOR MORE ... IF YOU'RE BRAVE ENOUGH ...

[Dan Djurdjevic]

Mmm. Chilling, foreboding, evocative.  Like the dueling banjos in Deliverance or the steady build-up of the tattoo imagery in The Illustrated Man it makes me want to read more!  Which I will now do.

[Absolutely*Kate]

SHADES OF GOOD GREY ... Thanks for your pre-dread - which I know you know how I mean.
LADY JEANETTE ... Thanks for moseying over AT THE BIJOU where the first part of the full tale is told and how the river plan approach comes to be ... there's a flow to hit the rapids I assure you.

Dear TOBY of the Colgate Writers' Conference (yay!) ~ Really appreci'kate your tension / drama notice -- I'm almost scaring myself writing what's coming next in this one. (I shut my eyes on the keyboard).

JOE oh JOE! Wow! a WOW from you ... damn, a WOW ... I'm dancin' man, I'm dancin'!

Uh, Nic, thanks I think. But you know I wish you swell on all you're juggling to make your true self come true.

~ Absolutely*Kate
back in the pre-season time of year

[Joe Gensle]

WOW. Just... WOW.

[Jeanette Cheezum]

Kate*
Glad your back. I'll mosey over to The Bijou tomorrow and read the rest of this. Glad you had a nice time.

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

The tension and drama is palpable here. Can't wait for the next installment. Glad you're back safe and sound AK!

[Angela]

I am feeling a bit of dread, being familiar with James Dickey's Deliverance. This looks like the start of something good (and maybe frightening).

[Absolutely*Kate]

Brittany oh Brittany, I keep likin' your sense of sensing more and more everytime you come around. Would love to be *clinking* glasses with you some day, some way. For now *cheers* to how you caught the concern taut and tucked in that last liner note.

Lookin' mighty forward to catchin' up on great reads from your corner of the world now that my summer's roaming has brought me on home. ~ Absolutely*Kate

[Brittany]

Super :) love your last thought about self and safety AK! Great piece!

[Absolutely*Kate]

Aw shucks ... I've missed your insight to interpretations like crazy good ShyJot -- and we know how well one can miss 'crazy' ... THANKS for selectin' the liner note I *felt* as well.

Just back from Turkey and Ohio-homeland travels and I've got a lot o'catchin' up to do 'round 6*City ... Pleasures are good places to come home to from summer's roaming -- lookin' forward to findin' more of what you've been all about. (somethin' tells me it shall be never a dull moment!) ~ Absolutely*Kate