L.V. Gaudet

Cody blinks his eyes open.  They feel grainy, gummed up.  His mouth feels pasty and he imagines how bad his breath must smell.  His...

Cody blinks his eyes open.  They feel grainy, gummed up.  His mouth feels pasty and he imagines how bad his breath must smell.  His...

A figure prowled in the darkness by the entrance of the roughed in road leading into the Garden Grove jobsite, the shape revealed in the...

A figure prowled in the darkness by the entrance of the roughed in road leading into the Garden Grove jobsite, the shape revealed in the...

The boys are rummaging around the house for stuff to throw.  Kevin finds his baseball and bat, setting them by the back door. “You going...

The boys are rummaging around the house for stuff to throw.  Kevin finds his baseball and bat, setting them by the back door. “You going...

Another round of coffee was poured in the little kitchen for the four women of the coffee clutch. “I just can’t take it anymore,” Libby...

Another round of coffee was poured in the little kitchen for the four women of the coffee clutch. “I just can’t take it anymore,” Libby...

June looks out the window to the backyard.  The snow is tramped down, ugly and mangled, from the many pairs of boots that have walked all...

June looks out the window to the backyard.  The snow is tramped down, ugly and mangled, from the many pairs of boots that have walked all...

I can see you out there, with your chainsaws ripping into the gnarled bark of the old oak trees, tearing their wooden flesh apart until...

I can see you out there, with your chainsaws ripping into the gnarled bark of the old oak trees, tearing their wooden flesh apart until...

It’s later than he planned when Cody walks into the house from the bar in the next town.  He stumbles around in the dark of the...

It’s later than he planned when Cody walks into the house from the bar in the next town.  He stumbles around in the dark of the...

A police officer knocked on the old lady’s door.  He waited, knocked again, waited.  Constable Timothy Berkham is a young man and new on...

A police officer knocked on the old lady’s door.  He waited, knocked again, waited.  Constable Timothy Berkham is a young man and new on...

“Where’s the comic book?” Jesse is standing in the living room, staring at the floor, now devoid of one comic book featuring The Thing in...

“Where’s the comic book?” Jesse is standing in the living room, staring at the floor, now devoid of one comic book featuring The Thing in...

At the hospital, men groaned in pain and thrashed on gurneys, rolling feebly to vomit furiously into too small jellybean shaped hospital...

At the hospital, men groaned in pain and thrashed on gurneys, rolling feebly to vomit furiously into too small jellybean shaped hospital...