Archive for May, 2008

Posted on May 27, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Hole: Part 74

This was not the strangest thing I’d heard uttered during my search for the hill Cumorah. Quite the opposite, in fact. But it was said with an an earnestness that made the remark impossible to brush aside as the simple, drunken ravings of a country bumpkin. I asked him to repeat what [...]

Posted on May 23, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Hole: Part 73

Elliot sat down. “Here,” he said. “I think it’s safe to open it now.”

They’d left the museum without encountering any trouble and come outside to find Cassandra gone, as expected. That was her mission, Elliot thought. She did it but she didn’t stick around to see how it turned out.

Evajean had [...]

Posted on May 21, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Hole: Part 72

“Where do we go?” Elliot said.

“I don’t know. Do you know?”

“No.”

Evajean looked around. “I thought I’d just feel it,” she said. “Like back in the house at the barrier.”

“Yeah.”

“But I don’t.”

“I don’t either,” Elliot said.

Evajean walked ahead of him, to the back of the garage where a railing ran along an elevated [...]

Posted on May 5, 2008 - by Aaron Ross Powell

The Hole: Part 71

Elliot laughed. “Fair enough,” he said. “I mean, that angle, Moroni, gave the book to Smith and we learned he’s got something to do with this. So why not the Native Americans, too?”

“How do you know they’re real?” Evajean asked.

Cassandra shook her head. “I heard them. In my dreams at [...]