Tony Walker

matthew heard wailing as he left the building feeling stronger and more purposeful as his all-black attire blended with the night he closed his eyes as memories returned in darkness he saw his winged friend and the cloaked man in the same painting as before

The final blow struck as the dark figure fell gradually in retreat.

He smiled, the breathing he had heard before murmuring like Morse code in the darkness.

It is done.

Time for work.

My rival is no more.

Suddenly he understood his new purpose with clarity.

The city stretched out before him, a new candidate somewhere in the darkness with whom he would merge eventually, and like the winged creature pass on what he had now acquired.

In time his shape would change, resembling more and more the winged thing, as with each victim he grew closer to it over time.

He felt a distant memory of his former self, like a distant murmur in the night.

He whistled softly to himself, turning to see the boy in the window again.

He winked and walked off as the night welcomed him for his own, and new bodies waited in the dark.

So that was an original story by William Bundy.

And just to remind you that we've published the second edition of the magazine, Once in a Haunted House, that contains original fiction from writers who we pay for their stories because we want to encourage, I want to encourage new fiction of this genre.

So if you feel that's something you would support, but also that you would get benefit from because you'd enjoy the stories.

click on the link, go to my Payhip store, and you'll see both the first and the second editions are still in print.

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But support the writers and help us do this again.

So that was a walk in the park written by William Bundy.

And I had the great pleasure of interviewing William, Will, to his friends.