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Aaron Ross Powell

Essays, Short Stories, and Serial Novels

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    Outro started by Aaron Ross Powell
    THE HOLE, as a serial novel, is completed. Sixteen months of writing and ninety-thousand words and Elliot and Evajean’s journey has ended. I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who’s followed the book–and to everyone who’s just start
    Part 80 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    “Jesus,” Elliot said.

    “What are they doing?” Evajean said.

    The salt lake spread out in front of them, its surface golden in the morning light. They stood on a raised stretch of highway running parallel to shore. Under them was the hard
    Part 79 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    Moroni was here, in this world. Both of them knew it as soon as they’d been made aware of the true nature of their quest–the true nature, in fact, of their very purpose. Furthermore, he was in Salt Lake City. That was why the barrier they’d passed through
    Part 78 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    I am not a bad person. Raised poor, uneducated, and an occasional charlatan, yes, but I am not a bad person. The insects that eat at my corners try to tell me otherwise, but I don’t listen. I am not a bad person.

    When God speaks, you have no choice but to listen. I know.
    Part 77 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    Elliot and Evajean finish reading the journal and learn the truth about the enemies they face.
    Part 76 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    Elliot and Evajean finish reading the first part of Smith's journal and discover shocking revelations.
    Part 75 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    I’m generally not one to put too much stock in this kind of metaphorical reasoning, but a bloody lamb with a halo, especially in such otherwise unusual circumstances, was too specific in nature to ignore. And Bear was clearly terrified. He stopped speaking after this last stateme
    Part 74 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    This was not the strangest thing I’d heard uttered during my search for the hill Cumorah. Quite the opposite, in fact. But it was said with an an earnestness that made the remark impossible to brush aside as the simple, drunken ravings of a country bumpkin. I asked him to repeat w
    Part 73 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    Elliot sat down. “Here,” he said. “I think it’s safe to open it now.”

    They’d left the museum without encountering any trouble and come outside to find Cassandra gone, as expected. That was her mission, Elliot thoug
    Part 72 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    “Where do we go?” Elliot said.

    “I don’t know. Do you know?”

    “No.”

    Evajean looked around. “I thought I’d just feel it,” she said. “Like back in t
    Part 69 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    Elliot opened the trailer’s door and stepped out. Night’s chill had come quickly and he pulled his jacket tighter around himself. “It’s clear,” he said to Evajean.

    She stepped up behind them, then bent down to hug Hope. R
    Part 66 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    At the bottom of the steps, Elliot and Evajean reversed their order. “I can’t go in there,” she said. “What we need to find, it’s down there, but, Elliot, you’re going to have to look for it, okay?”
    Part 65 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    The house stood alone in a field of wheat. A dirt road cut through the crop to its front door and it was this Elliot followed as Evajean gazed out the window at the barrier.

    The curtain of light came down directly on the house, cutting it in half. But where it should have [...]
    Part 64 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    They’d covered half the distance when the creatures returned. One must have been hiding behind the truck, its body flattened impossibly thin, because it now rose up, huge mouth opening and contracting with the sound of lips smacking. Melvin screamed, falling backwards away from
    Part 63 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    They looked at each other. More gibberish, Elliot thought. More useless information that did nothing to sort out their mad situation. And so he laughed.

    “You think I’m joking?” Melvin said. He held the book close to his face again and read. ̶
    Part 59 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    They might have left the crazies behind and escaped the pursuing creatures, but Elliot wasn’t willing to accept the worst was passed. They were heading to the Hole and it might answer their questions, but those answers would only be a continuation of the oddities already experienced
    Part 58 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    For the next fifteen hours they drove, stopping only to eat, relieve themselves, and fill the truck’s tank with gas from the metal drums foraged in Nahom. The conversation about what was going on continued, but in the absence of a mundane explanation, it quickly became futile.
    Part 57 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    The creature in front turned to follow. It reared back, however, just yards away from colliding the top half of its tubular body with the concrete and steel only eleven fee above the pavement. As Elliot sped away, he saw the second creature slam into the first, both falling, and then the
    Part 55 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    Twice he almost asked her about Nahom, almost pressured her to remember, but the trauma was too close and he set the questions aside. Instead, he addressed the continuing first leg of their expedition.

    “We’re still going to Colorado,” he said, when
    Part 54 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    As they walked back to the truck, their way bright and easy from the lights the crazies had returned to them, Elliot wondered if that was it. Had the crazies chased them all this way just to tell them that one word? And what the hell did it mean?

    The crazies had simply walked [...%5
    Part 53 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    “Shut that thing up!” Elliot said. He waved his hand behind him until he found here. Grabbing her jacket, he pulled her forward. “Come on!”

    “Let go,” she hissed and jerked his hand away. But she followed him,
    Part 52 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    Evajean said, “Is that–”

    “Yeah,” Elliot said. “That’s them.” He pushed off the boxes behind him and walked out into the corridor that lead toward the front of the warehouse. “Wait
    Part 50 started by Aaron Ross Powell
    “There,” Evajean said.

    “What?”

    “Over there. I think there’s a door.”

    Elliot looked. A rectangle of bluish grey hung in the middle of a large blank of deep grey. An open door.

    “I
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