L.V. Gaudet

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...

June blinks her eyes.  They feel grainy, dry, and sore.  The room is fuzzy and she feels groggy, like she had stayed up much too late and...

June blinks her eyes.  They feel grainy, dry, and sore.  The room is fuzzy and she feels groggy, like she had stayed up much too late and...

Stanley Rutthers stood in his boss’s office nervously gripping his hard hat in his hands. His boss, Bruce Copeland, sat at his desk...

Stanley Rutthers stood in his boss’s office nervously gripping his hard hat in his hands. His boss, Bruce Copeland, sat at his desk...

Cody pulls into the parking lot of the motel and bar, his car bumping over the rough pothole-filled lot. He pulls into a parking spot and...

Cody pulls into the parking lot of the motel and bar, his car bumping over the rough pothole-filled lot. He pulls into a parking spot and...

The construction site was abuzz with activity.  Already behind schedule due to a calamity of errors, and then from the site being shut...

The construction site was abuzz with activity.  Already behind schedule due to a calamity of errors, and then from the site being shut...

The officers keep them separate by design, to get their stories without either being affected by the other. They want to see how their...

The officers keep them separate by design, to get their stories without either being affected by the other. They want to see how their...

I can see the tractors, the workers, and the great swaths of black ruined earth marring the weed infested tan stubble of the once...

I can see the tractors, the workers, and the great swaths of black ruined earth marring the weed infested tan stubble of the once...

On the edge of the last small untouched part of the woods a lone figure stands silently, hunched against the cold in a thin worn jacket,...