tell me where it is and I’ll let you go—with your report.”
“I really don’t know. It was at the committee of revisions that I first heard of your circus.”
Mr. Crutchfield thumped the table with his fist but hit the edge of the plate of cookies instead. The plate pirouetted across the floor, breaking the cookies into pieces.
“Maybe some domestic treatment will refresh your memory.” He snatched Nick’s report and threw the first two pages into the fireplace. Nick gasped.
“I’ve never met this old woman. Never seen this umbrella, I swear,” he said reaching out for the report, hoping that would stop Mr. Crutchfield from tearing out other pages. Mr. Crutchfield crumpled another page and hurled it in the fire.
“Stop! I’ll find it,” said Nick out of despair.
“Where did you hide it? Where is it?” said Mr. Crutchfield frowning, dangling the report above the flames. Nick was lost. He truly did not know where the humming umbrella could be. As he hesitated too long, Mr. Crutchfield leaped up and screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Remove this monster from my sight. I’ll teach him a lesson.”
Within seconds four domestics had barged into the room, and Nick was being dragged out.
Download these other titles by Frederic Colier
Fiction for Adults:
The Rain Crow (novel)
A Memoir of Absence (short story collection)
Les Témoignages Crépusculaires (short story collection, French)
Fiction for Middle Grade – Young Adult
Nick Klaus et le Paysage Désuet (novel, French) Book #1-4
Nick Klaus’s Fables (collection of fables) Book #5
Nick Klaus and the Room of Lost Footsteps (novel) Book #6
Nick Klaus and the Incurable Jumblelium (novel) Book #7
Nick Klaus and the Island of Broken Stubborn Dreams (novel) Book #8
Film:
A Glimpse into the Firing Squad (screenplay collection, Vol 1)
Another Glimpse into the Firing Squad (screenplay collection, Vol 2)
Last Glimpse into the Firing Squad (screenplay collection, Vol 3)
Theater:
Playground for Talking Heads (play collection)
Les Années Sourdes (play collection, Vol 1, French)
Les Années Sourdes (play collection, vol 2, French)
Non-Fiction:
Bruce Conner: In the Estheticization of Violence (literary criticism, Film Studies)
Les Recettes de la Famine. (social commentaries)
Reflections of Reflectionism (Film Studies)
Poetry:
Les Limbes Oscillatoires (poetry collection, French)
Watch these films by Frederic Colier
My Last Play (feature doc, 92’) 2012 (Coming soon online)
Dinosaur Park (feature film, 78’) 2010. (Coming soon online)
The Hindenburg Omen (feature film, 110’) 2008
Bounce (short, 5’) 2005
Desert Weeds (short, 16’) 2004
Of Wanderlust (short, 17’) 2003
About Frederic Colier
Frederic Colier was first a musician, before branching out into the theater, and then into the audio-visual world in 2000. This is when he founded Altered Ego Entertainment. Over the years, he has worked extensively in film and documentary as a writer, director and producer. He is currently the executive producer and host of Book Case TV and Books Du Jour, weekly literary programs about authors and their books, broadcasting in the NY region. But his most enduring passion, since a teenager has been writing. He is the author of several novels, short story collections and plays, both in French and English. He holds an MA in International Literature.
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