Genre: Horror. Action: Telephone Call. Word: gorge. 100 words
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"Down is the easy part," I reassured her. "I'll call you when I reach the tipple."
I stepped onto the trail and zig-zagged down to Kaymoor Mine, overlooking New River Gorge. I wanted the photo: Your family wants you to work safely.
Peering into the abandoned mine, I call her.
"Hey girl," I start.
"Mind the gas. Stay off the tracks. A small scratch can kill a large workman." It isn't her voice. It's...tinny, thready.
"Who is this?"
"Mind the gas. Stay off the tracks. A small scratch--"
A whistle blows within the mine.
"--can kill a large man."
Cool - I now know a different meaning for "tipple!" Old coal mines are full of horrors. We toured one in Scranton, PA, where they had us stand between two doors, a place where a child would have had to quickly open one to allow a car in then shut that door and open the other to let the car through, all the time in the total blackness. Heavy, fast cars. The tour guide cut off the lights and I couldn't breath.
ReplyDeleteI find them to be the most haunted terrible things (but I love caves--they BELONG under the ground!). But I had to go down and get a picture of that I-beam sign!!
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ReplyDeleteWonderfully creepy. And I love that I had to look up this *tipple* too.
ReplyDeleteOooh, this is haunting. As is the sign.
ReplyDeleteAnd this "tipple" was a new one for me too.
Really haunting!
ReplyDeleteThis could be the gorge my barn is near -- although I was thinking about the Columbia River one. The New River was a river I once wanted to raft on but never did and my rafting days are long over!
Yep, I'm going to need to look up tipple too. And now I can't find another adjective other than haunting or creepy. Good job!
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