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    Cursed
    Cursed
    Cursed
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    Cursed

    By Billie Sue Mosiman

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    CURSED, a short story. Bonus included: excerpt from the novel BANISHED.

    Leeds, a modern man living in San Francisco, loves antiques. A chair from the 1600s shows up in a local shop calling to him to buy it. He must own the beautiful chair with demons carved on the arms and legs. He hasn't an idea in the world inanimate objects might hold evil within them over time, and the method that evil might express itself to those hungering to find it.

    A horror tale by the Edgar and Stoker Nominated author of more than 50 books.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDM Publishing
    Release dateJun 9, 2013
    ISBN9781513025636
    Cursed
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    Billie Sue Mosiman

    Billie Sue Mosiman published 13 novels with New York major publishers and recently published BANISHED, her latest novel. She was nominated for the Edgar Award and was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, both for her novels. Since 2011 she's had more than 50 e-books made available on online bookstores. She’s the author of at least 150 published short stories that were in various magazines and anthologies. Her latest stories will be in BETTER WEIRD edited by Paul F. Olson from Cemetery Dance, a tribute anthology to David Silva, a story in the anthology ALLEGORIES OF THE TAROT edited by Annetta Ribken, and another story in William Cook’s FRESH FEAR. She’s an active member of HWA and International Thriller Writers. Blog: http://www.peculiarwriter.blogspot.com Twitter: @billiemosiman Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/billie.s.mosiman Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/texasdolly47 Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Billie-Sue-Mosiman

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      Cursed - Billie Sue Mosiman

      1676, Castle Marlborough, Scotland

      Hobble the legs. Tie off his neck to the stall. I want as much hair from it as you can get. I don't care if you have to kill him.

      The stable hands looked after their mistress marching in a determined way toward the imposing castle, then glanced at one another in fear. The wild, killer stallion reared and leaped around his stall as if he knew something unpleasant awaited him.

      In the end the stallion killed himself by jerking his head about in such frenzy he broke his neck. When he fell, he took one man with him, crushing him beneath his weight. Froth from his mouth and blood from the fallen victim beneath him spotted the animal's collected hair lying in the open wooden box.

      The stallion, descended from royal stock and worth a kingdom, gave his life for a witch's quest.

      The castle's Lady took the hair and put it aside in a dark, dry place in the dungeon along with the cedar planks from a cursed swamp far off in the north. The Lady was assured the wood was as cursed as any on earth, that it grew where the dead corpses of anything living died once near the water's edge. Along with the special horsehair and the wood, a bolt of silk woven by the hands of a mad crone was commissioned and it stood upright against the dungeon walls waiting to cover the chair seats. The woman, bordering on insane to begin with, fell headlong into madness once locked in a room until she was done with the required weaving.

      The furniture maker and master woodcarver came to Castle Marlborough on the Lady's biding and happy to do it once he'd received a velvet sack of coins. He followed the Lady into the dungeon, wary of the chaotic look in her eye. When he saw the fine accoutrements allowed him for the making of a chair, he smiled and ran his hand down the smooth beautiful cedar wood. Lovely specimens.

      Here's a drawing of what I want done. She handed over a scroll with a sketch of a chair with a high back that was plump with thick covered horsehair, arms carved and smooth as snakes ending in a carved head of a demon, a comfortable wide upholstered seat, and carved legs

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