"Don't Jump the Fence"
It's now back in Orlando, where four year old Harrison is. Yesterday Jaime brought Harrison to Orlando. Dexter told Jaime, over the phone, he needed her to bring Harrison to Orlando right away. Dexter said this was due to a "family emergency" but one he couldn't get into at the moment. Jaime called the grandparents and they were able to take Harrison right away, that same day.
However the grandmother in the family is sick. She has cancer. The neighbors have a dog that barks all night long. The dog's barking keeps the sick grandmother up at night.
Cody and Harrison are playing catch in the backyard. It's early in the morning. Astor's in the backyard with them. She's sipping tea while reading a magazine, "Teen Against Quarterly," she never misses an issue.
Cody accidentally throws the ball over the fence into the neighbor's yard. This sets the neighbors dog off barking again.
Harrison cheerfully offers, "I'll get it!" He runs over and crawls through a hole at the bottom of the fence.
Astor and Cody then hear a, "[Whack!]" sound. The dog suddenly stops barking. Astor and Cody are confused and look at each nervously.
Astor offers, "I'll jump over the fence and see what's going on over there."
Cody laughs, "Don't jump the fence if you're afraid to face what's on the other side."
Astor jumps over the fence. She sees that Harrison has the neighbor's beagle in his left hand. It's limp with a bloody head. A bloody rock is in his right hand.
Harrison smiles at Astor and says, "Now grandma can sleep at night." He proudly holds up the dead beagle.
Astor half smiles at Harrison in a horrified grimace.
If you enjoyed the story I'd love to hear a review from you. Of course it's always great to hear back from readers. But also I found that getting feed back can be helpful in both in terms of how I write, and how I present, my stories.
"Don't Jump the Fence" is actually an excerpt from a much longer story called, "The Morgan Family Cabin." This longer story is about 75,000 words long and has fifteen chapters. This particular excerpt is from chapter five, "What Tomorrow Brings." I pulled five other excerpts from the long story and titled them as shorter stories. The titles of the other shorter stories are: "Dexter Moser meets Debra Morgan"(1k+), "Dexter Kidnaps Debra"(16k+), "Debra's Dream"(2k+), "Quality Family Time"(4k+), and "Debra's Rapist Gets the Ax"(5k+). I figured a lot of excerpts worked well as stand alone stories. Also while I breezing through other authors's fan fiction, I found smaller snippets of stories give you a better idea if you'd enjoy a larger story along the same lines.
I got into fan fiction just so I could write the story, "Debra's Rapist Gets the Ax." While watching TV show Dexter I came to believe that there was a hidden-back story in the show. And that this story was going to be revealed late into the last season. Of course this didn't happen but I still envisioned that this story might go something like this: As kids Dexter kills Debra's rapist with an ax. And somehow one or both kids are made to forget this event.
All the other stories I wrote expanded from this original idea of mine.