Fratricide

Before he mysteriously died while fishing by Wyomingas Gros Ventre, Alex Kimtis, a successful novelist, left a note on the manuscript head recently completed. If something should happen, give this to my brother, Dan. As Dan soon discovers, the manuscript is more than a story. His brotheras literary agent, Bren Stockwell, approaches Dan at the funeral, demanding he hand over the first draft. When Dan begins reading the work with conviction, undecided if heall give the writing to Bren, events from the story begin happening in the realm of his own life. Before long, heas spiraled into a world he cannot explain, where things on paper arenat always stories, and the only answers lie with an ancient Native American named Wudadda. aThe mandible of the noosed corpse cracked, forcing itself open. A leathery tongue parted cobwebs, which condemned the mouth of speech. Knitted to the teeth, they stretched with elasticity. A screeching whisper, the skeleton hissed, aWudadda.aa