By Lael Littke
Thirteen (1991)
Edited by T. Pines
Tagline: 13 Tales of Horror by 13 Masters of Horror
Ten year old Kate secretly watches her older brother Brandon fight with his girlfriend, Lucinda. She says he cheated on her with some chick named Holly. Lucinda is standing knee deep in a lake wearing her red commencement robe. She threatens to swim down to her secret place and stay there to punish him. Brandon and Kate walk away from the drama and Lucinda is never seen again.
Turns out this lake is a drowned town. Six years later Brandon blames himself for
Lucinda’s disappearance. He is now Kate’s sole guardian and he drags her back
to his nightmare because the lake bed has dried out and he hopes to finds
Lucinda’s body. Instead he believes he’s
being haunted and Kate wakes up to puddles on her bedroom floor.
