Friday, July 12, 2019

"Subway Accident"

by Gregory Nicoll
originally published Singers of Strange Songs, Chaosium, 1997

Gentry is a down-on-his-luck homeless guy in Atlanta who used to work on the subway.  He runs into an old friend, Smedley, who's even more down-on-his-luck.  Smedley freaks out when he sees a handbill advertising an exhibit of Richard Upton Pickman paintings, which includes a photo of Pickman's painting "Subway Accident".

Hearing of some new tunnel work being done, Genty heads out to the site to see if he can talk the foreman into hiring him.  He finds the ground torn up but the equipment abandoned.  Something big tunnels up out of the ground.  Gentry escapes with his life but loses his legs in the process.

Nice try, but this is little more than a vignette and doesn't go anywhere.


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