Lunchtime! Wonder if I've lost everybody yet? Hmm. ;)
... Realizing immediately that these are bundles and bundles of paper currency notes, the homeowner's adrenaline begins to surge. There are...
Yeah, maybe I should've changed the color of the font too, for the actual story bits, but figured that might be a bit much. I'm "winging it" a...
... The fragments of paper are so small and so stained that he has difficulty reading them. In fact, he doesn't pause to try reading them at...
... Mud. The box is full to the top with tightly compacted mud. It is obvious that it had not kept a watertight seal during its long burial in...
... The homeowner becomes unable to contain his curiosity much longer. After wire-brushing the hinges and lock on the box, and peering at the...
OK, I'm back. Will resume typing again. :)
Sedwick the author and Sedwick the respondent are one and the same. Great story. I must have missed it initially.
Be safe. That's scary stuff. I'll pray for rain.
(To be continued) ... Hadn't intended to stretch this little serial out quite so long, but now that I have, it's kinda fun. Not to worry, there...
Aha. @desertgem beat me here, and had it covered quite succinctly while I was typing my overly long reply.
All right, Children. Let's all try to be civil and not force me to send this thread to Purgatory, pretty please? New people: (in general- not...
Oh, I assure you I too was utterly spellbound when I first heard the story in 1994, though I was getting the bare bones of it and not the highly...
... Back inside his utility room, the homeowner lays the old strongbox atop the muddy coveralls he had worn when he first filled in the hole...
... So our homeowner stands for a moment, dumbstruck by the discovery of the box. It takes him a moment or two to realize that it must be a box....
HB2U, @green18! Ladymarcovan brought home Chinese carryout. Beef Lo Mein for me. I shared with Lily the Cat (aka "The Orange Bandit"). It is...
Oh, now you turn the tables on me, sir, and have me intrigued! Naked wives can be fun, but it's the third bullet point - and your avatar - that...
... The flash of metallic gold seen in our homeowner's lantern light is not gold, but brass. It is the exposed rectangular corner of something...
I shall continue momentarily. Spoiler: it's not gold shining in his lantern light. Not yet, anyway. (?) ;)
Hurricanes don't play! Especially monsters like Hugo!
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