The Creek (2003)
“As she descended the cliff to the creek bed in the still morning air, Penny remembered how ambulances and police cars had filled Mockingbird Lane after Becky had been found, how it had seemed that the street was one great flashing light. The still night had been filled with the screams of Mrs. Albright, and Mr. Albright had had to be forcibly restrained by the police after he threatened to go over and kill Caleb himself. Penny hadn’t had the courage to tell him that he didn’t have to bother.
Sh...e smelled him before she saw him, and she gagged. It was a smell so incredible, so horrible, that she knew she would never forget it, not ever. It smelled like that dead frog, but a hundred times worse. The smell of hot, rotting meat.
Caleb’s body lay sprawled like a broken puppet that had had its strings cut, arms flopping forward. Old rubber tires, rusty aluminum cans, and ancient sneakers littered the dry creek bed, and the dead body seemed to fit there, oddly enough, as if the woods had taken back one of its own.MoreLess
Sh...e smelled him before she saw him, and she gagged. It was a smell so incredible, so horrible, that she knew she would never forget it, not ever. It smelled like that dead frog, but a hundred times worse. The smell of hot, rotting meat.
Caleb’s body lay sprawled like a broken puppet that had had its strings cut, arms flopping forward. Old rubber tires, rusty aluminum cans, and ancient sneakers littered the dry creek bed, and the dead body seemed to fit there, oddly enough, as if the woods had taken back one of its own.MoreLess
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