Walking in a Winter Wonderland (650 hits)
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Submitted by GodChicken <Monty> (View user info) at 2005-10-21 12:58:17 EDT
Hey there, young man! Why don't you come in and sit down. Stay a while. You can get gas later.
There's an early storm a commin.
What's that? Goin up on Soper Mountain? Why, that's still a good 40 miles..
You ain't gonna make it. We don't go out in the first storm of the season, up here. Won't get no help, if you get stuck. Forget the fall colors, it's all gonna be white in another hour or two.
I can feel it comin, deep in my bones.
What? Oh, you stop it now. You get to be 95 years old and still be able to work your fambly's business, you can say whatever you want. I got my aches and creaky bones jus' like every body. But they don't lie when the cold is a commin to getcha.
Just hold up a minute, an' I'll tell ya what I'm talkin about. You city folk, always movin so fast.
You ever hear tell of the Wendigo? No?
No, it ain't no indian tribe, or casino, neither. It does have to do with them, though.
Them Cree and Algonquin Indians, they been round here for a long, long time. People been living up in these North woods for nigh on twelve thousand years, says the smart people down at the University. They survived more winters in their lodges than we can ever imagine. But not all of em did. No, not all. The cold takes it's toll, sure as Uncle Sam takes his taxes.
That ain't all that takes, though.
Hunger. You ever been hungry in your life? No, I mean REAL hungry. Like how you feel after a day out in the woods an a bear done ate your food, and you get up the next morning hungry. That's only a taste of it.
The Cree say that a warrior who goes out hunting in the winter risks getting lost. No, not like you forgettin where you put your car at the mall down in Bangor. Sometimes he comes back okay, but empty handed. Sometimes though, he don't come back. Or if he does, he's gone crazy. His sickness spreads, an' they eat the dead. They say he was touched by the Wendigo, when that happens.
Huh? Oh. The Wendigo is a evil spirit, they say. Huge as a giant, frostbitten and rotten. Comes out in the storms and snow, to stalk the fields and woods up here. Maybe it used to be a man, don't know. It's hungry though. Crazy hungry. Hear it howling in the blizzards, lookin for food..all alone out there in the white.
Anyhow, that's why we don't go out in these early storms. Get trapped, get lost... maybe get touched. Maybe vanish. No, I ain't pullin your leg. Look it up on that Intarweb thing, iffn you don't believe me. Wendigo Psy..Psyc.. er.. sickness in the head. Couple Cree boys killed a woman, back in nineteen aught seven. Said she had been touched, only way to save the rest of the tribe was to kill her before she turned. They hung for it, but it wasn't their tribe what put em in the noose. They know a little somethin about the winter that we don't, these days. Still, some people vanish every year.
What? Oh, here's your change then. Sure wish you'd stay. I'm tellin you, don't go up on the mountain tonight. There's a motel just down the--
Damn.
Closin time, friend. I wanna get home before that storm hits. I know you do, too.
User Reviews
Submitted by coley (user info) at 2006-07-31 14:44:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice. Thanks for showin me.
Submitted by randomhero83 (user info) at 2005-10-26 12:55:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Nice-
but I don't really dig the title.
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2005-10-26 12:51:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Indeed.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2005-10-26 12:48:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That's freakin' sweet!
Excellent use of dialect.
Submitted by Viciousriffs (user info) at 2005-10-22 03:24:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by jack11058 (user info) at 2005-10-21 14:34:05 (#)
Ranking: 2
either you have recently seen the movie ravenous, or you need to.
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Hail, Monty.
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2005-10-22 02:51:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Not related to the post, but you have to see "Serenity" if you haven't already
Post is teh roxxors
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2005-10-22 00:50:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I like it. Very cool.
Submitted by Feijuada (user info) at 2005-10-22 00:41:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is 1337.
Submitted by Electro (user info) at 2005-10-22 00:39:58 EDT (#)
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Yes.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-10-22 00:29:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
you rock
Submitted by jack11058 (user info) at 2005-10-21 14:34:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
either you have recently seen the movie ravenous, or you need to.
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2005-10-21 13:40:26 EDT (#)
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Intarweb.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2005-10-21 13:10:52 EDT (#)
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chilling
get it
chilling
no? oh fine
Submitted by Thanatos (user info) at 2005-10-21 13:08:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
INTERIOR: HOTH -- REBEL BASE -- MAIN ICE TUNNEL
The deck officer and his assistant hurry toward Han as he
enters the tunnel.
DECK OFFICER: Sir, Commander Skywalker hasn't come in through the
south entrance. He might have forgotten to check in.
HAN: Not likely. Are the speeders ready?
DECK OFFICER: Not yet. We're having some trouble adapting them to the
cold.
HAN: Then we'll have to go out on Tauntauns.
DECK OFFICER: Sir, the temperature's dropping too rapidly.
HAN: That's right. And my friends out in it.
ASSISTANT OFFICER: I'll cover sector twelve. Have com-control set
screen alpha.
Han pushes through the troops and mounts a Tauntaun.
DECK OFFICER: Your Tauntaun'll freeze before you reach the first
marker.
HAN: Then I'll see you in hell!
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-10-21 13:06:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Nice.
Yay Monty.
Cluck.
Submitted by SpikeGoddess (user info) at 2005-10-21 13:03:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
welcome back
Submitted by pfs4life321 (user info) at 2005-10-21 13:02:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
not too bad for scary story topics
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2005-10-21 12:59:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Here's a nod to Jack Mcallum's scary story-fest.