Nothing But Himself

Nothing But Himself in Less than Three's charity anthology, Project Fierce, was set in a fictionalized version of my local town. There is on the bad side of town a little cemetery next to a house and across the street from a cheap (potentially hooker) hotel. This whole place has a bad 'feel' to it.

Today for Halloween I stopped in the cemetery and wished I had stopped when I wrote the story because it would have made it creepier. The heart of the cemetery is a hill (where I had Nobody bed down in the story) which turns out is a Hopewell Native American mound. WHich the town fathers then used as their own private burying place.

You can just about hear the theme to Halloween or Poltergeist at this point.

Then almost every headstone is busted off and just lying around the cemetery, some propped up against the iron fence.

the mound

The house Nobody lived in.


I do wish I had been smart enough to stop earlier. Of course I wish I had published this story under my non-erotica name because I would have liked to investigate this world more. Ah well.