Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Scary Vacation
    A Scary Vacation
    A Scary Vacation
    Ebook16 pages12 minutes

    A Scary Vacation

    By Jack Haller

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Two runners remain friends after college even though they live on opposite coasts. Their second summer out of school finds them on vacation in Idaho, where they admit to one another that their jobs are not as grand as they had once envisioned. While on vacation, they meet a strange character who holds the power to change their lives forever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJack Haller
    Release dateApr 6, 2013
    ISBN9781627761840
    A Scary Vacation
    Author

    Jack Haller

    Jack Haller was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He lived in 5 States and attended 9 schools before being drafted and serving in Vietnam. Jack now resides in Largo, Florida and has two lovely daughters, one in Kansas City, one in Tennessee. He enjoys playing guitar, old movies, and riding motorcycle. He belongs to a local writers group and has written more than 10 short stories and 1 novella. He aspires to publish a novel within the next 12 months.

    Related to A Scary Vacation

    Related ebooks

    Action & Adventure Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Watch Your Step

      Nov 19, 2020

      Watch Your Step
      5 min read

    • Article

      Breaking The Law

      Jan 7, 2020

      Breaking The Law
      7 min read

    • Article

      Dust

      Jan 1, 2022

      Dust
      9 min read

    • Article

      Romance Vs. Pigs

      Jun 1, 2021

      Romance Vs. Pigs
      3 min read

    • Article

      Leviathan

      Aug 10, 2022

      After we killed the passengers, we put the bodies in one of the low-pressure, unheated storage compartments. Some people had wanted to have some kind of solemn burial-in-space thing; that was too ghoulish for most of us, though. Mostly the ones we ki

      25 min read

    • Article

      Righteous

      Jan 22, 2019

      Righteous
      8 min read

    • Article

      After the Carnival

      May 30, 2023

      After the Carnival
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Show Boy

      Oct 9, 2019

      The Show Boy
      9 min read

    • Article

      Dating Under The Radar

      Oct 1, 2021

      Dating Under The Radar
      4 min read

    • Article

      Kings

      Jun 5, 2023

      1.Kings lie down to zip up their jeans,buy Cetaphil, candy, magazinesat Walgreens because they canwalk there unsupervised, describeblowjobs they’ve given to seniorsin cars, spend what they think of astheir own money. Home sick from school,they learn

      6 min read

    • Article

      Newspaper Girl

      May 30, 2023

      I'll never forget the summer of 1953. That's when I took over my sister Carol's paper route. The route had been handed down to Carol four years earlier by my oldest sister, Suzanne. At first, I looked forward to the task. But my interest in and desir

      4 min read

    • Article

      Following A Dream

      Sep 12, 2019

      THE OCEAN VOYAGER AND ME Di Beach Published by Amazon, 2014, £13.74 (paperback) and £5.63 (Kindle) Di Beach, 20, was living in Kampala in the 1960s with her architect husband, Rod Pickering, and their baby daughter, Jojo. One Saturday they were forag

      4 min read

    • Article

      Interview DAVE FUSILLI

      Nov 21, 2023

      Interview DAVE FUSILLI
      14 min read

    • Article

      Order Form

      Mar 18, 2021

      Order Form
      3 min read

    • Article

      Drawer of Memories

      Apr 19, 2022

      Drawer of Memories
      5 min read

    • Article

      Joshua Mohr: The Time I Robbed a Liquor Store

      Mar 10, 2017

      Our alibi was a sandy blanket in the back of my truck, an acoustic guitar, a knockout brunette in the passenger seat. Our alibi was a night picnic at the beach. When we got pulled over—if we got pulled over—the cop would peer in the cab and he’d thin

      6 min read

    • Article

      What Do You See In A Year On The Road With Traveling Carnivals? A Father Tells Us In 'American Oz'

      Aug 19, 2020

      CHICAGO - Some years ago, a not-so-young and close-to-penniless journalist named Mike Comerford took a trip. It was not his first trip, but it was a long trip, taking him across this country and into Mexico. He traveled by bus (5,740 miles), train (2

      4 min read

    • Article

      Animals And Origami

      Oct 10, 2021

      I miss the sea breeze mussing my hair and the feel of cold sand worming between my toes. Even now, in autumn, the shoreline has its charms, like the squeals of the oystercatchers and the rhythmic ebb and flow of the tide. My dreams are of swimming in

      11 min read

    • Article

      Love, Lust, and More

      Feb 12, 2020

      Fleetwood Mac was singing She is dancing away from you now, and I squirmed in my seat. Kabir was rubbing my thigh as he drove, a gesture I once thought was reserved for me. Bah! I also used to think he only took naked selfies in bed with me, but then

      11 min read

    • Article

      When KINDNESS Comes Around

      Sep 10, 2020

      When KINDNESS Comes Around
      3 min read

    • Article

      LOVE Is The Word

      Jan 3, 2023

      LOVE Is The Word
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Scary Vacation

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Scary Vacation - Jack Haller

      A Scary Vacation

      by Jack Haller

      Copyright © 2004 Jack Pawlikowski

      Smashwords Edition

      YOU MEANT TO ditch us back there, George accused.

      He sat beside me in the cab of the U-haul, Charlie by the door. I felt his hands tighten around my throat, rendering me helpless as Charlie yanked the steering wheel from my grip. The truck went into a skid and rolled over and over and over.

      Ahhhhhhhhg, I screamed myself awake.

      My name's Tom Stillwell. When I was a kid I had nice dreams. I dreamed of being famous and winning a pile of gold and silver medals. My natural ability for running long distances earned me those medals in high school, as well as a scholarship to Penn State. That's where I met George Larkin. He was a runner, too. But it wasn't his first love. With him, golf came first. We became friends and ran track together

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1