It is said all they found<\/p>\n
was his blue windbreaker<\/p>\n
hanging on a tree<\/p>\n
a bloody fingernail lodged in its pocket.<\/p>\n
They searched for<\/p>\n
his axe, his shoes,<\/p>\n
drag marks and<\/p>\n
tire tracks<\/p>\n
and abandoned shacks –<\/p>\n
all dead ends.<\/p>\n
He had simply disappeared<\/p>\n
like morning dew in noon.<\/p>\n
His vanishing became a bar story<\/p>\n
fodder at camp sites<\/p>\n
and night time tales<\/p>\n
the story became a legend<\/p>\n
legend became a myth<\/p>\n
and myth became a fear so potent<\/p>\n
that anyone who passed<\/p>\n
the woods in the night<\/p>\n
swore to have heard screams<\/p>\n
and\u00a0nine fingernails<\/p>\n
scratching barks of<\/p>\n
the very trees that<\/p>\n
seemed to have swallowed<\/p>\n
Mr. Hickinbottom.<\/p>\n
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