Mark Stattelman

The Scarecrow and other stories Mark Stattelman

* A man sees a scarecrow hovering over bodies of dead soldiers on the battlefield and isn't sure that what he is seeing is real. He finds out soon enough . . . *A woman sits weeping at a window in the dead of night. A husband and wife intervene in an attempt to find out why. After all, the weeping woman doesn't live there. She doesn't live anywhere. She doesn't live at all.*There's a woman with the Golden Touch. Few men can resist her. And every man who falls for her becomes wealthy; but then he has to pay the ultimate price.*A little girl named Maggie Magpie knows and can list the soldiers who have fallen dead in battle. She somehow knows this before the list gets posted by the authorities. Knowledge of life and death can be a dangerous thing.*A woman is so devoted to her husband she wants to join him in the grave, even if she is still alive . . . *A young soldier overcomes fear on the battlefield. He needs luck to get him through the rest of the war. Perhaps a lucky bullet will do the trick. It's there, that lucky bullet, he just can't grasp it. These and other tales await you in volume four of 14 Dark Tales of the Civil War: The Scarecrow and other stories.