Kenneth Barnes

The Creature of O'Minee Kenneth Barnes

As darkness creeps over the countryside, the people of O'Minee go inside their houses, locking their doors and keeping a light burning throughout the night."He's afraid of the light," they say. But is he? It is true, that he cannot let the light of the sun to shine on his face, but he uses fire to cook his food the same as they. There are many things they know not of him, or his kind. He is ugly, the most of ugly and the worst of sight. He must live as a thief, for this was his curse; roaming at night stealing his bread and his meat, for this was his lot, as well as his brethren of long past. But I know of him and of the curse the Great King put on his kind long ago. I will tell his story. Yes, his story. The story of the Creature of O'Minee.