The Haunted Traveler Vol. 1 Issue 1
Welcome to the first issue of The Haunted Traveler; a roaming anthology seeking to collect the strange and the wild stories that we all carry. Those words hidden in the deep dark that linger around. Weasel Press is proud to have released this first collection of material and is excited to do more anthologies in the future. The Haunted Traveler is a non-profit, Horror and Science Fiction anthology that accepts a wide variety of art media such as photography, short fiction, creative non-fiction, digital artwork and more. Our anthology publishes twice a year. To find out more information about our submission process, please review our submission guidelines. Our first issue was released on March 28, 2014 and we couldn’t be more excited to feature the explosive talent that has been submitted to us. Our idea is to have an anthology roaming around parts of the world with a collection of frightening and strange stories; a mysterious anthology with a collection of ghosts.
Welcome to the first issue of The Haunted Traveler; a roaming anthology seeking to collect the strange and the wild stories that we all carry. Those words hidden in the deep dark that linger around. Weasel Press is proud to have released this first collection of material and is excited to do more anthologies in the future. The Haunted Traveler is a non-profit, Horror and Science Fiction anthology that accepts a wide variety of art media such as photography, short fiction, creative non-fiction, digital artwork and more. Our anthology publishes twice a year. To find out more information about our submission process, please review our submission guidelines. Our first issue was released on March 28, 2014 and we couldn’t be more excited to feature the explosive talent that has been submitted to us. Our idea is to have an anthology roaming around parts of the world with a collection of frightening and strange stories; a mysterious anthology with a collection of ghosts.
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28<br />
Freedom 55<br />
David Perlmutter<br />
On November 30, 1955, Abyssinia Jones returned home<br />
from his tiring and low paying job to what he hoped would<br />
be a solid night’s sleep. Jones, who worked as a janitor at a<br />
local steel mill, since he did not have the educational background<br />
for anything higher in the job market, was silently<br />
cursing the fact that he was “black”. Considering that it was<br />
this very racial, social and political status that prevented him<br />
from advancing any further than his current lot in life, he had<br />
much to complain about. However, he was not allowed, by<br />
both the hierarchy of his job and his “inferior” social status, to<br />
make any comments in return to the degrading and discriminatory<br />
treatment he received on his job, and so he planned to<br />
voice these complaints to himself silently that evening while<br />
he ate and slept in his “ghetto” apartment.<br />
Immediately upon entering, he was blinded by a shaft of<br />
yellow light, which retreated as soon as it arrived, leaving a<br />
stranger in the room with a black remote control box in his<br />
hands.<br />
<strong>The</strong> stranger was an African American like Jones, although,<br />
far from displaying a deferential weariness in his body and<br />
facial posturing, the man was, in fact, a specimen from a<br />
more advanced future- specifically, the year 2013. Jones, fearing<br />
the worst, stepped back and addressed the stranger.<br />
“You git away from me!” Jones ordered sharply. “I don’<br />
know where you comin’ from, but you ain’t takin’ me back