The Cache

By Sherry D. Ramsey

Danny thought taking his girlfriend's kid and his dog on a geocaching hike would earn him some points and make the kid happy. He didn't count on discovering something very different from the usual cache in the woods...very different, and very dangerous.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sherry D. Ramsey
• Release date: Oct 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9781990178115

Sherry D. Ramsey

Sherry D. Ramsey is a speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, creativity addict and self-confessed internet geek. When she's not writing, she makes jewelry, gardens, hones her creative procrastination skills on social media, and consumes far more coffee and chocolate than is likely good for her.Her debut novel, One's Aspect to the Sun, was published by Tyche Books in late 2013 and was awarded the Book Publishers of Alberta "Book of the Year" Award for Speculative Fiction. The sequel, Dark Beneath the Moon, is due out from Tyche in 2015. Her other books include To Unimagined Shores—Collected Stories. With her partners at Third Person Press (http://www.thirdpersonpress.com), she has co-edited five anthologies of regional short fiction to date. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies in North America and beyond. Every November she disappears into the strange realm of National Novel Writing Month and emerges gasping at the end, clutching something resembling a novel.A member of the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia Writer’s Council, Sherry is also a past Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer of SF Canada, Canada's national association for Speculative Fiction Professionals.You can visit Sherry online www.sherrydramsey.com, find her on Facebook, and follow her on Twitter @sdramsey.

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The Cache

~A Short Story~

by

Sherry D. Ramsey

Published in 2022

Cover Artwork © James, Humble Nations

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This book contains a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, entities or settings, is unintentional, coincidental, and entirely attributable to the vagaries of the multiverse and fluctuations in the space-time continuum.

Ramsey, Sherry D., 1963-, author

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Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada

The Cache

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-990178-11-5

Reprinted with permission of the author.

The Cache first appeared in Unearthed: The Speculative Elements v. 3, Third Person Press, Canada, 2012, and later in The Cache and Other Stories, 2017

The Cache

The GPS beeped. A few feet in front of me, Ricky whooped, startling something small in the underbrush. It skittered away, unseen, through the carpet of dead leaves. The dog immediately shoved his nose under some brush, straining at the leash. I tugged him back.

Don’t drop it! I yelped, because as usual, the kid seemed unable to keep himself still like a normal human being. I already regretted letting him carry my GPS. He looked ready to dash into the underbrush himself in search of the cache.

I’m not going to drop it, Danny, he reproached me, holding it out so I could see how tightly he held it, and that the strap was still looped around his wrist. I took his hand and turned it so I could see the screen.

Arriving at Gully’s River West. Below that, it displayed the coordinates.

I eased the gadget away from the kid. He relinquished it reluctantly. Okay, we’re here. Now, you’re not going to find the cache by jumping up and down like a maniac. This is the part of geocaching where you really have to pay attention and concentrate.

I expected my words to fall on deaf ears, but surprisingly, Ricky stood still.

So once the GPS says we’re here, it’s gotta be somewhere close, right? he asked, peering into the forest around us.

"Yeah, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to