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    We All Scream for Ice Cream
    We All Scream for Ice Cream
    We All Scream for Ice Cream
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    We All Scream for Ice Cream

    By Lou Yardley

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    A short story to give you brain-freeze!

    From indie horror author Lou Yardley comes a new deliciously weird story that can be devoured in sitting. 

    Summer's here and the usually quiet and studious Katelyn is letting her rebellious steak out. At eleven-years-old and with the world's coolest bike, there's no stopping her. Especially now that she's got new friends...

    But a day at the park takes a bizarre and horrific turn when an ice cream van shows up. All at once, Katelyn learns about friendship, fitting in and the lengths she will go to survive. 

    "We All Scream for Ice Cream" combines monsters, gore and dessert in one tasty little package.

    File under: Horror, Dark Fantasy, Weird.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLou Yardley
    Release dateMay 17, 2019
    ISBN9781386275596
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      We All Scream for Ice Cream - Lou Yardley

      We All Scream

      for Ice cream

      LOU YARDLEY

      Published by

      Lou Yardley

      www.louyardley.com

      Content copyright © 2019 Lou Yardley

      Cover layout and illustration © 2019 Loucifer Speaks

      Logo © 2018 Sludgework, www.sludgework.com

      Castle Dracustein font by Sinister Fonts

      Alte Haas Grotesk font by Yann le Coroller

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted at any time or by any means mechanical, electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior, written permission of the publisher.

      The right of Lou Yardley to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1988.

      First printed May 2019

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

      Copyright © 2019 Lou Yardley

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-0946954-4-0

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      DEDICATION

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      To Max the Brave – my favourite superhero.

      https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/max-mchugh

      CONTENTS

      ––––––––

      DEDICATION

      CONTENTS

      THANK YOU

      PATREONS

      CHAPTER ONE

      CHAPTER TWO

      CHAPTER THREE

      CHAPTER FOUR

      CHAPTER FIVE

      CHAPTER SIX

      CHAPTER SEVEN

      CHAPTER EIGHT

      CHAPTER NINE

      CHAPTER TEN

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      BOOKS BY LOU YARDLEY

      REVIEWS FOR HELLHOUND

      REVIEWS FOR WHEN THE SUN SETS

      REVIEWS FOR RISE OF THE CARNIVORES

      THANK YOU

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      To everyone reading this,

      Thank you – you are awesome.

      Blood, guts and hugs,

      Lou

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      Extra special thanks to Mark (my resident swearologist), Mum, Suz, Max, Nan and all of my family and friends.

      My eternal gratitude goes to Philip Rogers for his PR efforts and Ange Shepherd, Luke Hayhurst and A. Renee Hunt for being willing guinea pigs

      PATREONS

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      The folks listed here are absolutely amazing! You are my guinea pigs, my sounding board and my superstars. Thank you so much for all of your support.

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      Ali Vaughan

      Ange Shepherd

      Jana Auerswald

      Krista Walsh

      Owen Morgan

      Paul Metzger-Phillips

      Synn Unsworth

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      If you would like to become a patron, please visit www.patreon.com/LouYardley

      CHAPTER ONE

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      I will always remember that summer...

      I got so excited because I was finally getting to ride the bike that I got for my eleventh birthday. You see, my birthday is in the winter and the weather is usually crap around then - snow, rain, hail, you name it - so I didn’t get to ride the bike as much as I wanted. So, as you can probably imagine, once summer rolled around with its hot, dry days, I was more than ready to roll.

      That bike was cool. Super cool. It was the coolest thing that I’d ever seen... and certainly the coolest thing that I’d ever owned. I don’t know much about bikes, and I’ve never pretended to, but that bike was purple, so in my mind that made it cool. And I felt like I was going faster than the speed of light whenever we went downhill. A lightning fast Ribena berry.

      I should probably explain who we are. We were a small group of friends, thrown together more because we lived on the same street, rather than because we had much in common. Carter Smith thought that he was the leader of our little ragtag group. He wasn’t really, but it was always him who decided where we went and what we did. But, to be honest, we didn’t mind. Someone had to decide and, thanks to him, we were never bored. And, when you’ve got six weeks off school, there’s a good chance that you’re going to end up getting bored at some point.

      Next door to Carter lived a girl called Connie. Me and Connie were really close. She was my best friend back then and we shared everything. Clothes, secrets, toys - nothing was out of bounds. Connie’s brother, Dale, completed our group. As he was a little bit younger than us, sometimes it felt like we were babysitting him, but Connie’s mum said that we had to let him play, so we did.

      I’d like to tell you a story about what happened during that summer holiday. I still can’t quite

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