Pete Gustavson
Bio
Pete Gustavson is an award-winning songwriter who dabbles in fiction, and can't decide between Elmore Leonard and Hilary Mantel. He lives with his wife and children in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Stories (29/0)
Master
you may ascend it prove mastery of yourself but not the mountain
By Pete Gustavsonabout a year ago in Poets
An Inheritance
The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. In the tavern, every family living in and around the small village was represented. Farmers, laborers, landowners, shopkeepers, and tradesfolk, all packed shoulder to shoulder in the main room. They each held the tankard that the landlord had prepared for them, their serious faces lit by its flickering light. Generations spanning hundreds of years had prepared them for this.
By Pete Gustavson2 years ago in Horror
Shadows in the Smoke
There weren't always dragons in the valley. Once, not so long ago, the valley was lush and green, and teeming with wildlife. The people who lived in the woodlands that surrounded it would go to the river there to fish, snare rabbits, or to hunt the giant elk. Lukas remembered his father coming home with a stringer full of trout and stories of his mighty struggles to bring them in, and his mother would fry a few of them on the fire for dinner, and hang the rest up the chimney to smoke. Lukas had dreamed of the day, soon, when he would be old enough to go along and catch his own fish.
By Pete Gustavson2 years ago in Fiction