In "The Ginger Men" by Julie Jansen, mother is baking a special ingredient into a treat for father, an ingredient that gives her pie dough a life of its own.
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Georgie’s mother put a hand up to stop him from going any further. She picked up the jar, carefully unscrewed the lid, and dumped the contents into the flour mixture in the bowl. She gripped a wooden spoon, ready to stir, but the green stuff mixed itself into the flour with no human help required.
“It smells bad,” Georgie said and pinched his nose. “I don’t know if I want to eat that, Mom.”
His mother glared at him, the way she did when he spilled fruit punch on the sofa or when his pet tarantula was loose somewhere in his room.
“It’s not for you!”
Her reaction scared him and he stepped back. He looked at his father for help, not that his father could do anything. Just seeing the man looking back at him would have given him some comfort, but his father’s eyes were shut now.
“It’s for your father.” Her voice became calm and soft again. “I thought he deserved a treat.”
“But you told me he could only get food from the tube.”
She turned red again, but took a deep breath and calmed as she looked at the clock. “3 o’clock. Time for you to run those errands you promised.”
Other stories include: "Jenny's House" by Ada Hoffman, "A Lullaby for Caliban" by Mark Onspaugh, "The Last Nephew" by Elizabeth Twist, and "The Cornfield" by Mike Trier.
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I was hard pressed to pick a favorite. Each story brought it's own unique, fresh and fun perspective on horror. At times I thought of the Creature Feature shows of old, and with them in print, rather than on film, I can imagine something horrid to my heart's delight."
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Julie Jansen lives in Olympia, Washington where she spends gray, rainy days writing spooky stories when she isn't teaching Italian or sneaking vegetables into her bonus children's food. She's an Associate Editor for Dark Moon Digest and Review Coordinator for Dark Moon Books. Her stories have appeared in Twit Publishing's Summer/Fall 2011 Pulp! Anthology, Nature, State of Imagination, and Fear and Trembling Magazine.
Visit Julie online at http://www.juliejansen.blogspot.com/. She is also on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/julie.jansen and follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/juliejansen.
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