The Dead and the Bizarre

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When David A. Landry was 18 years old, he entered the United States Marine Corps Reserves and was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. His combination of reserves and full-time service in the Marines was 14 years. While in the Marines, he was a grunt 0311, optics technician, armorer, cook, battalion training NCOIC, base, and division combat photographer, photo lab technician, small arms weapons instructor, prisoner control chaser for the brig, and, lastly, military police officer. After the Marine Corps, he enlisted into the California Army National Guard Unit as a combat military police officer and was stationed down El Cajon, California. At the same time, he was a reserve deputy probation officer for San Diego County and a crisis counselor for San Diego, California, Trauma Intervention Program (TIP).

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice in 1999, he was employed overseas in the Marshall Islands at Kwajalein Atoll as a civilian police officer and later hired to work as a security police officer in Kuwait and then to Bosnia. He worked at Incirlik Air Force Base, Turkey, as one of their civilian-based photographers. Later on, he accepted a position by Armor Group as an air deportation specialist returning illegal immigrants to Mexico City and Guadalajara, Mexico. Later, he was vehicle inspector for Lockheed Martin and his job was to locate anything that would resemble an explosive device(s) or find any illegal contraband before entering the naval base. When the contract for this position ended, he applied for a job as a Department of Defense federal police officer for the Navy. He was accepted and stationed at Fallbrook Naval Weapons Station, Fallbrook, California, for the next 10 years. He retired on April 1, 2019, and here he is now writing books about ghost and the bizarre stories

The Dead and the Bizarre David A. Landry Thriller

The author and 11 other writers share their own ghost and bizarre stories in this collection. This book was fun to write for all of them but has also brought back those haunted memories they wanted to forget. They all want to share this with you so you would know that you are not alone and the paranormal are real, and they are also sharing the same plain with us. Like it or not, “The Dead and the Bizarre are here and all around us” in our natural world, so we need to get used to it and accept it.

The Beer Can Slide

It was late in the evening, and all of us kids were getting ready for bed. Everyone just finished taking showers, and I came into the kitchen for a drink of water and to say good night to everyone there. My mother; my father; my mother’s sister, Aunt Joanne; and her husband, Uncle Ed, were at the kitchen table playing cards. That was my parents’ way of spending quality time with both sides of their family. And this was every weekend, starting on Friday nights at 8:00 p.m.

There were moments of intense laughing from everyone at the table, popping open cans of beer, money dropping into the pot for the losers, and the conqueror taking all the capital collected throughout all the games. It was great to see any family come over and have fun, and I was always out there when the company did come around. This night was one of those nights like all the rest, and I couldn’t sleep because of all the talking, slamming down the cards hard on the table, and the money dropping into the pooling container.

Suddenly, everyone at the kitchen table felt a cold gust of air rush by their table. There were no doors open; the same with all the windows. All were closed. It was precisely like the coldness I felt that morning when the chair moved on its own in the kitchen earlier before. All of a sudden, my father’s beer can glided across the table with speed and about eight inches from where it was on the table.

Everyone seated at the table looked at each other and said, “What the hell made that beer can move across the table like that?”

I said, “Maybe it was the same ghost that moved the chair here in the kitchen.”

Dad said, “Dave, it’s time to go to bed.”

As I was heading for my bedroom, I could hear my uncle say, “What’s Dave talking about, the chair moving on its own here in the kitchen?”

Dad said, “David has an imagination. One morning I heard some noises coming from the kitchen, and when I got up to see what the noises were, David was sitting in the kitchen, sitting on the chair and telling me that the chair was moving by itself.”

Aunt Joanne said that everyone had too much to drink, and maybe it was time to go home. All agreed it was getting late, so after my aunt won the pot of money, everyone got up to get their jackets and Mom and Dad walked them to the door. two beer cans falling off the table onto the floor. This time the excuse was the front door was open while they were saying good-bye and a breeze had knock them off the table because they were empty. My dad checked the can after my aunt and uncle left, and it was dry as a bone. When this can slid across the table, there was no moisture at the bottom. After this night, my parents started using coasters.

AUTHOR INTERVIEW

What’s the hardest thing about being an author?

Sitting down and committing long hours and finishing it.

What is the best thing about being an author?

For me it’s funny but it was on my bucket list forever and recognition.

What book changed your life?

Of course, the first book The Dead and the Bizarre are here and all around us. Which lead me to writing three more.

What inspired you to write this book?

Started 30 years ago writing a few stories and gave them to family and friends to read and they said they couldn’t put them down and wanted more to read. Finally, one day on a talk show the host said why haven’t you written a book? You have done about everything else! So one day during the pandemic I sat and started to write and it continued on for a total of four books a collection.

How would you describe your style of writing to someone that has never read your work?

These books where done purposely very simple that a 6 year child could read and comprehend. Using college words and forcing the readers to gather up a dictionary is not something I want to happen. Keeping it simple to the readers it helps make translation into other languages much more easier.

Do you feel that writing is an ingrained process or just something that flows naturally?

To me it flowed naturally. My first book The Dead and the Bizarre are here and all around us had made me go back into time and relived the moment as if it were happening right now.

What is the take home lesson you wish your readers will learn after reading this book?

That they’re not alone if they’ve ever in their lives experience a paranormal activity and it’s time for them to come out from hiding and tell their stories.

What books are currently in your to be read pile?

I am working on a book right now called, “Abbadon Heart” it’s a horror story if produced on screen I’m sure it be a top box hit. And of course, it has to be done by Steven King.

Anything you would like to say to your readers and fans?

Just for them to just remember it’s in simple to read and in plain language.