Mike Simmons
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I'm a practicing Engineer who likes to write horror and science fiction in my spare time. The scheduling of my content will always be wishy washy, but if I have some free time or a great idea that comes to me I'll always try to post here.
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Wildfire Season
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. That was the simple anonymous report that led one park ranger hiking out to the northernmost far corner of the land he was responsible for managing. One little candle in one little cabin might not sound like a good reason to hike alone at night, but that region was in the midst of wildfire season during an especially persistent drought so the rangers could take no chances when it came to violations of the campfire ban. Despite the drought the forest felt as alive as ever to the rangers keen eyes and ears, branches snapped ahead of him as he walked signaling startled animals fleeing his approach, crickets sang, to his right he could hear the drought weakened stream nevertheless continue to gurgle on carrying as much life giving water as it could muster down the mountain to try to nourish the valley below.
By Mike Simmons4 years ago in Horror
