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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there wit’ you!”<br />
“Now, there’s no need to be hostile!” the stranger responded<br />
calmly. “I just want to know what year this is and where<br />
I am!”<br />
“This is 1955, fool!” said Jones. “And you is in Birmingham,<br />
Alabama, as if you ain’t knowing that already!”<br />
A broad smile came over the stranger’s face.<br />
“It works!” he said softly to himself. “It works!”<br />
“Wha’ you talkin’ ‘bout, man?” Jones demanded.<br />
“Oh! I apologize,” he said, shaking Jones’ hand. “We haven’t<br />
been properly introduced yet. My name is Dr. Henry L.<br />
Gooch.”<br />
“I am likewise known as Abyssinia Jones,” said the man<br />
with that name. “But you has still not explained to me about<br />
who you are and where you have come from.”<br />
“I’ll explain that now,” said Gooch. “I am from the year<br />
2009, and I came here through the services of the time machine<br />
that I constructed. I thought, perhaps, I would have<br />
been able to transport myself farther back through the space<br />
time continuum, but, as it is, being in 1955 is good enough.”<br />
“Good enough?” answered Jones, surprised that he would<br />
use such positive language. “Man, hush yo’ mouth! We has<br />
got it bad here! I works twelve hours a day, and I barely get<br />
enough money to pay my rent as it is! I suppose you all in<br />
2009 are in the same position.”<br />
“Actually,” said Dr. Gooch, “while many African Americans<br />
remain impoverished, there is a much larger number of<br />
us now who are well educated and financially affluent…”<br />
“Hold up!” said Jones. “Wha’ you call our people, there?”<br />
“African Americans,” said Gooch. “It’s the proper, politically<br />
correct term for us in my time.”<br />
“Dey don’t call us niggers there? Or colored? Or even plain<br />
ol’ black?”<br />
“Some of them still do. But racism in general is looked<br />
upon much more unfavorably in all forms of life. So, unlike<br />
conditions in your time, we tend to judge people for jobs,