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    Short Stories, Sinister Tales for Teens
    Short Stories, Sinister Tales for Teens
    Short Stories, Sinister Tales for Teens
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    Short Stories, Sinister Tales for Teens

    By Dandi Palmer

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    Don’t look now because the clown from Hell is right behind you, the smog is melting people away into another dimension, and monsters roam the golf course.
    Your friendly, helpful smartphone could be the portal to Purgatory and that mysterious toyshop holds a secret to turn the toughest teenage mind.
    Not suitable for younger children.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDodo Books
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781370095872
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    Dandi Palmer

    An illustrator for over thirty years, Dandi Palmer has been commissioned by the Radio Times, Prima, UNESCO, BBC Focus, and many more publications. www.dandipal.uk has a selection of picture books as well as samples of other illustrations and portfolio of published work.The illustrator also writes science fiction, fiction, and supernatural/fantasy novels for adults under the name of Jane Palmer.

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      Short Stories, Sinister Tales for Teens - Dandi Palmer

      Short Stories

      Sinister Tales

      for Teens

      by

      Dandi Palmer

      Published by Dodo Books

      Copyright Dandi Palmer 2011

      ***

      This is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

      ******

      Stories

      Tricardy, Dicardy and Boo

      The trouble with triplets.

      Clouds

      The clown from Hell - and another from Heaven.

      The Terrible Toyshop

      Wicked cure for delinquents.

      The Smog

      Melt away into an alternative dimension.

      Madam Phantasmagoria

      Monsters on the golf course.

      I’m on the Bus

      Smartphones that swallow users.

      Eyes in the Sky

      An island under alien observation.

      Game Over

      Plug into an electronic dimension.

      Butterflies

      The chrysalis of hope.

      Tricardy, Dicardy and Boo

      The triplets’ real names were George, Alan and Robert, but they insisted on being called Tricardy, Dicardy and Boo. Together they were known as the Trilobites because they were just a little weird; small identical brothers with the same thoughts apparently inhabiting three bodies. One of them would start a sentence and another finish it. It could be quite spooky. Other parents were overheard suggesting they were probably Midwich Cuckoos, though not within earshot of their proud mother and father.

      Tricardy was the oldest by 30 minutes, and then came Dicardy, and lastly Boo, who only differed from his brothers by giggling a lot.

      As they grew older (but not much larger), their birthdays became more problematic. Being identical, friends and relations were inclined to buy them exactly the same things. They should have known better and were always mortified by the way their gifts of soft toys, colouring books and Transformers were pushed into a cupboard and ignored. The boys much preferred to play with the building materials they somehow intimidated older friends to scavenge from skips. The influence the eight-year-olds had over other children was inexplicable to the adults who wondered what they were building.

      Tricardy, Dicardy and Boo spent all their spare time at the bottom of the garden constructing, what their parents assumed to be, a portal to welcome the aliens they claimed would shortly invade Earth.

      While everyone else thought that the boys were odd, their parents assumed that it was normal for identical brothers to behave in exactly the same way until their mother started to become increasingly apprehensive about her sons’ ability to perceive weird things no one else could see. It reached the point where Tricardy, Dicardy and Boo noticed the tension growing between their parents. It didn’t worry them; they just carried on piling up planks, corrugated sheeting and wooden crates until they had created a rickety structure large enough to accommodate all three of them, Del the family dog, and any alien who might have dropped in. It was quite dangerous so one night their father dismantled the structure before it collapsed.

      Tricardy, Dicardy and Boo expressed no annoyance at this act of vandalism, which the adults found more disconcerting than a triple tantrum.

      During the ensuing argument between their parents, they overheard their mother tell their father that she had brief relationship with a young man at a motorway hotel over nine years previously. This confirmed their father’s suspicion that the strange triplets were not his, though the boys couldn’t understand why it made him so angry.

      With a supreme effort, he overcame his outrage and spent the following evenings sulking in the local pub.

      In a few weeks life returned to normal; the boys building another dangerous structure and their mother behaving as though nothing was wrong.

      Then Tricardy, Dicardy and Boo saw a handsome man arrive at the house. He hesitated at the front gate as though expecting Del, the elderly family spaniel with few remaining teeth, to attack him.

      Even from the bay window, the triplets could see that the visitor’s eyelashes were unusually long and dark, like theirs, and his skin had that yellowish pallor, which doctors had once thought was jaundice. He had not come in a taxi or car, and it was several miles from the nearest railway station. Perhaps he had landed in his spaceship?

      The boys somehow knew the stranger had come to see them. They dashed out to meet him before he could reach the front door.

      Father is at work... said Tricardy.

      And mother is ironing, said Dicardy.

      And they didn’t speak to each other this morning, giggled Boo.

      At the last comment the handsome man’s eyes opened wide.

      Did you want to see her? asked Tricardy.

      I can fetch her, offered Dicardy.

      But we don’t really want to, giggled Boo.

      She’s in a very bad mood.

      Why not talk to us instead?

      Not many people talk to us.

      They say it’s too confusing.

      As the triplet’s responses merged, it was easy to see why.

      I have come to see you, announced the man.

      Why?

      We don’t know who you are.

      I know who you are, the visitor told them.

      Who are we, then?

      The same boy.

      How can we be the same boy?

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