Despite it's jeering, the crow flitted over to rest on the Wooden Man's shoulder. Everything went in slow motion. The Scarecrow raised a crackling hand and a thick wall of solid wood jutted from the ground, protecting me from the gun. &quot;_Touch the boy and I will ensure that you burn for eternity in the deepest pits of hell!!!_&quot; The Scarecrow boomed with the help of the crow. Clayton didn't appear to hear him, I just saw the deranged look plainly screaming in his eyes as they widened in fear at my plywood guardian. Before I knew it, a wooden spike jutted out of the ground and impaled Clayton in a spatter of scarlet sustenance. The scarecrow sent me home afterwards and made me forget what happened. All I remembered then was The Wooden Man saying how traumatizing of an event it was.... So, I didn't remember anything until I saw Clayton's limp and bloody corpse hanging up in the cornfield up on a post. The look of fear and surprise glazed over in his eyes is what I will remember. _He_ was the new scarecrow 2008-05-12T23:16:32Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/29859 <p>Ooh, creepy. I thought the Scarecrow wouldn&#8217;t actually kill Clayton, due to his aversion to violence, but I figured he had to. And what a show it was. I love that slightly disturbing, macabre image of Clayton&#8217;s corpse as the new scarecrow.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/29859?basename=61915 2008-05-12T23:16:32Z Stovohobo http://ficlets.com/authors/stovohobo <p>Nice! The Scarecrow saved him! I like that wooden thing!<br />LoA</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/29859?basename=61471 2008-05-11T00:15:25Z Blusparrow http://ficlets.com/authors/blusparrow <p>Great continuation Never Explain, I&#8217;m honored you wrote two ficlets on the theme of Clayton&#8217;s evil ways! I love that he is hung up as the new scarecrow, that&#8217;s just about the only job a corpse can get nowadays and it doesn&#8217;t pay well, lol.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/29859?basename=61118 2008-05-09T02:24:52Z Tad Winslow http://ficlets.com/authors/tjd