Comment from jenintorre

Excellent

I am not surprised that you are afraid of the dark. Your Dad has a lot to answer for. This is a very good entry for the competition. Good luck and best wishes.Jen.

 Comment Written 31-Oct-2018

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reply by the author on 01-Nov-2018

Thank you.
My dad was a very complicated man. Yes, I tike that you honed in to the part that he he has a lot to Answr for. He died young and I don?t have much to say about that.
He was very much into being a history teacher.i know he lioved teaching and his students respected him.
He was a hard father, but even though he was tough He taught many kids that he helped and es well liked.
.i became a critical think at a very early age.
He taught me culturec

I am thankful fiorvwhst he did give me.

Comment from Dean Kuch

Excellent

Whaddaya mean, "when dad's used to tell horror stories"?
I'm a dad (five times over as a matter of fact), and my kids still like me to tell them horror stories, even though they're all adults 21 and over.
Uh, yes, after an experience like that I can understand why you were/are afraid of the dark, LOL.
Your dad sounds like my kinda dude.
God bless 'im.
Good luck to you in the contest.
~Dean ;}

 Comment Written 31-Oct-2018

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reply by the author on 31-Oct-2018

Thanks for reading.

Good family times. There were Six of us then.
My dad would crack himself up just telling the stories.

There are some seriously spooky
Roads in the New England area.

Comment from meeshu

Excellent

that's so great, yesterday's good-hearted Dad fun is today's criminal child abuse. don't you long for those days again, I do. good luck in the contest..

 Comment Written 30-Oct-2018

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reply by the author on 31-Oct-2018

Thank you for reading.

I love things about the days: the freedom, the fun, less fear, more authentic connections.

But as age I love technology. I am curious and a finder if information.
I love YouTube and Ted talks. I love digital drawing. I love to use my speaker found and have a conversation while cleaning.

Every thing marches foward. I think what makes me sad is the generations that will make future decisions have never through a war. They gave things instead of ideas. And the rich history we share seems as foreign as the second age, but is so relevant to where we are to day.

reply by meeshu on 31-Oct-2018

I think war will become Drone vs. Drone and they'll barely notice. and did you say CLEANING!??!!?.......

Comment from Derrick Payton

Excellent

I enjoyed this, mainly because I have been down so many roads like that here in the south. The image definitely sets the perfect tone for the story. I felt it as if I was in the car myself. Very good build up to the suspense and the funny but not so funny for you ending, lol.

 Comment Written 30-Oct-2018

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reply by the author on 31-Oct-2018

Thank you for reading.

It tickles me that everything I wrote really happened. We didn't have technology so we sang in the car together or tell stories etc.
But boy oh boy my day was grandiose in every way. So dramatic and intense. I still have nightmares from the way he would narrate horror stories.

My dad was also a history teacher well liked by his student
Very creative.
He would challenge a student to race him down the hall.

He was a complicated person and died of early onset Alzheimer?s .
Back to the horror, there are some seriously scarey and disturbing places in the New England states.
They are old places with lots a secrets.

Do you know the story of the Quabbin reservoirs. They sank like four towns to create a water reservoir for Boston.
I could walk down the road at a picnic stop and see the water covering the road.

So much history

And I really am afraid of the dark.

Comment from DonandVicki

Excellent

Ah yes, the good old days, riding without seat belts because they hadn't been invented yet. A horror story in itself. Loved your short write. I can relate to the old time horror stories.

 Comment Written 30-Oct-2018

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reply by the author on 31-Oct-2018

Thank you for your review.

I wondered if anyone would pick up the fact they we would go flying when the brakes were slammed. I am glad you picked that up. I wasn?t allowed enough words to write what is was like to ride in a station wagon w 6 kids and no seatbelts.
Seriously though, there are so very scary roads in New England.

Comment from Y. M. Roger

Excellent

Oh my goodness! Your dad was quite the character! :) ;) Mine was always thinking up ways to get me to do more work - LOL! :) ;) A seriously fun horror write -- thanx for putting some 'smiles' back into Halloween! :) ;) Good luck in the contest! :)

 Comment Written 30-Oct-2018

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reply by the author on 30-Oct-2018

Thank you for reading.

Yes my dad was a very interesting character. He was a history teacher. So I grew up rather informed of history not known to most.
His students loved him for his creativity.
He had one class that he taught where Time magazine was the material studied.

He was known to challenge his students to race him down the hall.

But back to the horror stories, he told so many that the other parents in the neighborhood did not want their children coming over.

I wonder what they think of all the killing games in play station.

Comment from Liz O'Neill

Excellent

This is such a universal story. So many of the readers will be able to relate. Probably especially we who also had to travel dark back roads when there were neither street lamps nor houses with li9ghts and probably just no houses for miles and miles in that terrible vise-like darkness. We traveled Rt. 5 from VT to MA. My father was a late sleeper so we also traveled in the dark and we all told ghost stories. The imagery you have created is very vivid. The reader is invited to recall the stories they told on such rides.

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reply by the author on 30-Oct-2018

Thank you for reading.

Life used to be so authentic. We depended on our minds to pass the miles. But OMG- there are some seriously scary roads in New England.

There is a part of 2A that goes by the Quabbin. The Quabbin, as you might know , is the water supply for Boston.
They flooded 3or 4 townships to make the Quabbin. Seriously eerie.
I remember as a child at picnic spots walking to the end of a road covered by water. I would think of all the houses and things under that water.
Tall trees would jut out in the middle of water where trees shouldn?t be.
I think one of the towns was Dana.
Anyways, New England is old and has so many secrets.

reply by Liz O'Neill on 31-Oct-2018

VT is very haunted also. We have a reservoir which has a flooded deserted town with cellar holes still there. There cleared out an entire community just as you are saying there too. We walked around the part not under water & saw the cellar holes, very weird & sad.
Another very haunted place we;d drive by was the Brattleboro Retreat. I don't know if it was something Karmic or what, but when we'd drive by that place at night, I'd say at 6 or so years old, "someday I'm going to work there. I wasn't a while after I was working there, I remembered saying that. And that place is very haunted. I got a tour through the underground tunnels. Spoooky. i'll have to look up your Quabbin too.

reply by the author on 31-Oct-2018

Seriously interesting