Europa Journal

by Jack Castle

  Hank opened his mouth to speak, but the vortex suddenly gobbled up the locomotive engine clanking down the tracks ahead in one enormous bite. The dozen train cars that immediately followed also vanished one-by-one into darkness.

  With great effort Hank worked up the will to speak, “Sarah… I don’t want to go in there.” Hank shivered uncontrollably. He found both hands clenched on the steering wheel and he could feel his feet pressing into the floorboards. As if that would do any good.

  Sarah ignored him. “Look kids, here we go.”

  Hank glanced at a wooden sign at the tunnel’s entrance. The finely crafted sign was supported by two thick tree poles. The sign had seen better days Hank thought, but he could just make out the faded white lettering.

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  Welcome to HavenPort!

  Year Round Population: 492

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  Before Hank and his family were swallowed by the mouth of the tunnel completely and the darkness closed out the last of the fleeting light, Hank glimpsed a shocking image in the rearview mirror. His children’s broken bodies littered the back seat and his blood-spattered wife lay dead in the seat beside him.

  —BEDLAM LOST

  About the Author:

  Jack Castle loves adventure. He has traveled the globe as a professional stuntman for stage, film, and television. While working for Universal Studios, he met Cinderella at Walt Disney World and they were soon married. After moving to Alaska, he worked as a tour guide, police officer, Criminal Justice professor, and certified weapons instructor. He has been stationed on a remote island in the Aleutians as a Response Team Commander and his last job in the Arctic Circle was protecting engineers from ravenous polar bears. He has had several Alaska adventure stories published along with articles in international security periodicals.

  For more Jack Castle news, check out the author’s web page at:

  www.jackcastlebooks.com

  Details

  EUROPA JOURNAL

  by Jack Castle

  Copyright © 2015 by Chris Tortora

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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