NOTE: Bird of Prey, along with 6 other stories are included in the horror collection Nightfall. Now available!
Nestled in the warm belly of the abandoned Keisel Steel Works, an ancient creature has begun to stir. A hundred-year cycle is drawing to a rapid close and with it the time when the beast leads her newly hatched young to the feeding grounds.
A handful of the oldest folks in town remember that time well. A time when the sky was clotted with flapping, leathery wings and monsters driven mad by the smell of human blood. They also know of the feeding grounds. They know them as the backyards in which their kids play and the streets of the tiny Alaskan town they call home.
Buck Sanders didn't know any of this the day he arrived at the steel works to pilfer a length of siding for the roof of his crumbling bar. And neither did his friend Tommy Hodgkins. But they are the only ones who can stop a curse that has been playing out for centuries. At stake is more than their lives. At stake is everything.
Bird of Prey is 17,000-words (about 70 pages)
Other books by Griffin Hayes
Novels:
Malice
Dark Passage
Novellas:
Hive
Hive II
Hive III (coming soon!)
Bird of Prey
The Neighbors (new release)
Short Stories:
The Second Coming
The Grip
Fatherland (new release)
Collections:
Night Terrors (includes Dark Passage, Malice & Hive)
Nightfall (a short story collection--now available!)
