AuthorsDen.com   Join | Login    
Where Authors and Readers come together!

SIGNED BOOKS    AUTHORS    BOOKS    SAMPLE CHAPTERS    AUDIOBOOKS    eBOOKS    STORIES    ARTICLES    POETRY    BLOGS    NEWS    VIDEOS    SUCCESS    TESTIMONIALS

Featured Authors:  M. R. Mathias, iJoy Pedersen, iOdin odin@aflx.com, iJay Dubya, iMargaret Mullings, iTom Kitt, iPaul Lonardo, iRochelle Brandon, iShirley Francis-Salley, iGibbs Williams, i

  Home > Horror > Stories
Popular: Books, Stories, Articles, Poetry      Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     

William P Haynes

 Follow Me  

· Contact Me
· Books
· Articles
· Poetry
· News
· Stories
· Blog
· Messages
· 93 Titles
· 324 Reviews
· Save to My Library
· Share with Friends!
·
Member Since: Before 2003

William P Haynes, click here to update your pages on AuthorsDen.


dark shadows
by William P Haynes
Saturday, March 12, 2005

Rated "G" by the Author.

       
Recent stories by William P Haynes
· Semjaza in Sealius
· God
· teaser
· the lost kid
· last night
· cookies and milk
· the crowd vanished
           >> View all 14


     tribute to the old soap


a lullaby plays gently, the tenderness of a young girl's flute. Sara enters David's room as a great vampire bat alights upon the windowframe's edge. Barnabas recalls his past with a deep sadness as he views Sara waking the youth resting in troubled sleep.
"Sara, how did you get in here?" David asks, as he wipes the trace of sleep from his eyes.
"I can go where I please, you know that David and I needed to see you," Sara says as she faces the window and frowns. The bat shrieks a piercing wail as it suddenly flies away under the shadowy cover of the night.

He is at the "old" house now perched just outside the door. The serum burns in his veins and the vampire bat falls like a stone to the ground. How many hours pass, that he may never say. He only knows that when he awakens he feels the touch of the sun on his face and the warmth is a memory almost forgotten. Barnabas rises from the ground, yawns and stretches. His muscles ache, it too is a feeling long gone, so very long gone. Looking down on his clothes he sees he is dressed in finery. His shoes buckle and are made of the finest dark leather. The long coat he wears is a light shade of grey. Barnabas stares ahead at the house just yards in front of him. He looks on as eternity ticks but he cannot remember. Barnabas is only a shadow cast by time on the lawns of yesterday. Hesitantly he begins walking towards the home he no longer knows.


 

Want to review or comment on this short story?


Need a FREE Reader Membership?


Reviewed by Nordette Adams 12/19/2005
The memories unfurled in my brain reading this piece. I used to race home after school in New Orleans to see Dark Shadows. It came on 3:30 pm CST. My cousins and I, we were all fans. Thank you for this. ~~Nordette
Reviewed by mz kimi 10/14/2005
ahhhh... a blast from the past! wonderfully caustic!
Reviewed by Tracey L. O' Very 3/18/2005
Such a wonderful tribute to this show. I love the last line here. Walking up to the home he no longer knows.
You really have a magnificent pen in hand and I love your www. Many interesting and things on there.
Thank You elliot
have a Super Duper Day Every day and don't wrok too hard.
groans were only a sigh barely heard. AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!! now that is heard.(C:)


Traceyxo
Reviewed by Gwen Dickerson 3/18/2005
Good write, William. I especially liked your last paragraph! I will visit your web site soon.
Reviewed by Mary Quire 3/16/2005
Nice tribute. I'll have to catch the show sometime.

M.Rose
Reviewed by m j hollingshead 3/14/2005
enjoyed the read, enjoyed te show back in the 60s
Reviewed by M. B. 3/13/2005
My mother used to watch this when I was a kid... Dark Shadows was a different kind of soap... still is.

Interesting write. :)
Reviewed by Dave Harm 3/12/2005
Use to race home after school just to watch it, mom couldn't believe I was watching a soap opera... oh thanks for the memories...
Reviewed by Nickolaus Pacione 3/12/2005
I used to watch this show on Sci-Fi Channel -- the inspiration for Among Shadows was Dark Shadows. This is a good way to tribute the gothic soap opera.
Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado 3/12/2005
i remember this show; it was a favorite of my oldest sister's for a long time. good nostalgic write; well done! :)

Free Book Review Program
Select a book to read and review today!

The Survivors by T. Weber

A young mother dreams of bringing back a world lost to catastrophic climate change, but is thrust into a nightmare beyond her imagining.  
Member BookAds

Daddy's Girl by Lydia Graves

A Gothic nightmare.  
Member BookAds

Truth Twister by Lydia Graves

Book 1 in the Unveiled Sins series  
Member BookAds