Writing In Public - The Big Tall Man Chapter 1
1. Wherein Things Known Become Unknown And Things Unknown Become Known Thirteen year old Tommy Wheeler was pushing his bike through the underbrush, taking the shortcut home this time, when he saw the Big Tall Man. The Big Tall Man didn’t see him though which was a good thing for now because, as Tommy would find out later, once he looked at you he took you down the Rabbit Hole, in the Away From The Light, somewhere deep in the Halfway, and once he took you there no one knew what happened next except for the fact that you never came back. But Tommy wasn’t currently thinking about any of that. Right then he was thinking about finding his way home. Because this shortcut wasn’t as easy as he remembered, especially with the long gnarly fingers of darkness reaching through the branches of the trees overhead, clinging there with a death grip. He’d come back home in the dark probably hundreds of times before but something about this was different. The darkness itself felt different. The dark