Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Great Gams
    Great Gams
    Great Gams
    Ebook39 pages30 minutes

    Great Gams

    By J. Dane Tyler

    5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Petey's on the verge of puberty. And, like any red-blooded early-teen boy, he knows a great set of legs when he sees one. So when Petey and his best friend Wally spot a great set of legs on Ms. McGillicuddy -- who is old enough to be the apple of Petey's grandpa's eye -- Wally decides he wants to find out why.

    The boys soon learn there's a connection behind all the recent child disappearances in the area, and there's something very special about Ms. McGillicuddy's legs. They also discover that beauty often comes at a price.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ. Dane Tyler
    Release dateJun 27, 2015
    ISBN9781310994890
    Great Gams
    Author

    J. Dane Tyler

    J. Dane Tyler is a father, husband and Christian living in the greater Chicago metro area and lamenting hot, humid summers and long, bitter-cold winters while pining away for his lost hair color and waistline. He enjoys his family and sitting around in his underwear, scratching himself in unmentionable places, drinking coffee and complaining. In short, he's a writer. He has had a non-fiction book published under another name and is currently working on a second. When he remembers to do so, he works in the IT industry. Occasionally. Please feel free to make connections on Facebook or Twitter.

    Related to Great Gams

    Related ebooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Running Away

      Feb 22, 2021

      Leaving London behind her, Millie drove faster, picturing thousands of crazed fans in pursuit, desperate for what – a lock of her hair? Or Julian; except after the last gig, somehow she knew he wouldn’t follow. She knew from bitter experience that di

      5 min read

    • Article

      Some Sweet Minutes

      May 19, 2021

      Some Sweet Minutes
      8 min read

    • Article

      Slow Descent

      Jan 26, 2022

      Slow Descent
      5 min read

    • Article

      Natural Habitat

      Jun 24, 2021

      Natural Habitat
      5 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Feb 25, 2021

      My sister and I have always been fans of spooky and unnerving stories, and particularly those associated with Devon and Dartmoor, our favourite holiday destination as kids. We both, therefore, knew the ‘Devil’s Hoofprints’ story better than any other

      4 min read

    • Article

      The Traveler

      Nov 1, 2020

      The Traveler
      9 min read

    • Article

      It Happened To Me…

      Sep 10, 2020

      It Happened To Me…
      4 min read

    • Article

      Watch Your Step

      Nov 19, 2020

      Watch Your Step
      5 min read

    • Article

      Ann Beattie

      Sep 15, 2017

      I’d started to visit Olivia more often because it was obvious she was lonely. The ALS lady who’d been moved to Hopkins had been Aunt Olivia’s closest friend, leaving aside Merton Hillstead, who actually went home. Even the friendly paperboy who somet

      23 min read

    • Article

      LOVE Is The Word

      Jan 3, 2023

      LOVE Is The Word
      6 min read

    • Article

      Hollywood, Ending

      Feb 13, 2018

      Hollywood, Ending
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Family Plot

      May 7, 2020

      The Family Plot
      10 min read

    • Article

      Descent

      Jun 14, 2022

      People got out in strange ways. No stranger, I suppose, than the ways they got in. One year an American military helicopter flew too low over an Italian ski village, killing two families headed up the lift. A woman at Hillcrest had Italian citizenshi

      22 min read

    • Article

      Summer Reads

      Dec 30, 2019

      Summer Reads
      7 min read

    • Article

      Flashbulbs Popping

      Apr 5, 2022

      Flashbulbs Popping
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Traveler Part 1

      Sep 1, 2020

      Jamie wandered aimlessly, kicking a broken chunk of sidewalk, following the chip of cement as it skittered and bounced through leaves and off curbs. In a trance, she walked down unknown blocks and around unfamiliar corners, her mind so far away that

      9 min read

    • Article

      Beyond Rose Street

      Nov 10, 2021

      “Don’t tell anyone what happened to Tyler.” I stop running just long enough to turn, hoping for more instructions, but Leyton is already sprinting up his porch steps and through his front door. “Should we—” He slams the door behind him. Even from whe

      20 min read

    • Article

      Puppy Love

      Mar 19, 2021

      Puppy Love
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Fortune Teller’s Confession

      Aug 10, 2022

      White obscured the man as he waddled down the old dirt path, which was disappearing under the snowfall. I brought the axe down one last time before I paused, stepping back in reflex as the wood split, each half tumbling in an unpredictable direction.

      12 min read

    • Article

      Teddy And Roosevelt

      Jan 10, 2021

      They call it Friends Group. But there are no friends, and there is no group. Just me, a state-funded Social Worker, and another sixth grader the kids call Sweaty Teddy. We sit in a converted cinderblock office between the furnace and the chapel and l

      16 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Oct 7, 2021

      My mother’s family came from Mullingar in southern Ireland, and in the late 1950s she used to take my sister and me for three to four weeks in the summer. My father would follow on later. My grandparents had a farmhouse just outside the town. One eve

      7 min read

    • Article

      Best in Class

      Jun 1, 2021

      It was fair time in Kendallville, Ind., in 1941. I was a Chicago boy who had been sort of volunteered to help work on my uncle’s farm during the summers of 1941 and 1942. With the war imminent, manpower was in short supply, which was the reason for m

      3 min read

    • Article

      Powder Nexus

      Aug 19, 2016

      Powder Nexus
      10 min read

    • Article

      Apocrypha

      Feb 6, 2020

      Apocrypha
      2 min read

    • Article

      The Jamie Brisick corner

      Dec 22, 2021

      The Jamie Brisick corner
      9 min read

    • Article

      Sweet Sorrow

      Aug 19, 2019

      Sweet Sorrow
      8 min read

    • Article

      Cliffhanger

      Sep 1, 2019

      Cliffhanger
      7 min read

    • Article

      Intelligent Creatures

      Jul 6, 2023

      Intelligent Creatures
      19 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Great Gams

    5/5

    1 rating1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Great little macabre short story about a small town, two boys, a grandpa, and the grandpa's sweet heart. I think it is great and I hope you will too.

    Book preview

    Great Gams - J. Dane Tyler

    A SHORT STORY

    By J. Dane Tyler

    Part One

    About three thousand years ago, Ms. McGillicuddy had great gams.

    She used to dance, and had the body to prove it. Gramps had a thing for her before he married Grams and settled down. Ms. McGillicuddy gave him a photo of herself. It’s all brownish and worn now, but he kept it buried under the greenbacks and his faded VFW card. The wallet almost sighed when he took Ms. McGillicuddy’s picture out.

    Me and Wally Stintman stared at that picture of Ms. McGillicuddy in her dancer’s clothes, with one leg thrust through a high slit in her skirt. Showing those amazing legs. Stupid Wally tried to touch the picture but Gramps pulled it away. She was a looker, that Ms. McGillicuddy. Funny I thought so, ‘cause I didn’t even know I liked girls. But I liked the one in that picture. Oh yeah; liked her a lot.

    Gramps went away muttering about gams. Wally and me went to spend our morning at the drug store with a comic book in one hand and a soda pop in the other.

    * * *

    We paid for the comics and the drinks. Mr. Farmingham looked at us over his half-glasses perched at the end of his hawkish nose. You boys keepin’ outta trouble these days? He crooked a friendly half-smile at us and winked. One stray cobweb of white hair waved on the breeze from the overhead fan.

    Tryin’, Wally said, and turned for the door.

    I ran into his back when he stopped at the newspaper stand. He thrust his chin at the headlines. You hear about that?

    A big picture of Mikey Bullford, a local middle school bully from here in town, grinned out from the middle of the story. He went missing a couple weeks back and no one heard from or saw him after that. Turns out, cops were giving up looking. Figured one last front page plea for help from the public might be worthwhile.

    Yeah, I said. Too bad.

    Wally blew a raspberry. Bull. No one liked that prick anyway. Good riddance.

    What about the others? Jimmy Sellers, Amy Langford, Stevie Proulx….

    Screw ‘em all. Never heard of most of ‘em anyway. You a bleedin’ heart all of a sudden?

    I shrugged as we went out into the shimmery heat rising off the blacktop. We just straddled our bikes to go home when Wally swatted my arm.

    Hey, he thrust his

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1