Tag: demons
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STATE OF DISASTER 6
“Lady Patterson” Patterson Plantation, Abandoned Wednesday 31 October 20:50 The party was a success. Everyone was having fun, and though the hole in a corner of the room made way for cold air, Tommy Oppenheimer had, as usual, thought and scouted ahead. He had an outdoor portable generator going, a stack of fuel cans to…
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STATE OF DISASTER 8: A Town With A Past
Eight “A Town with a Past” Thursday 1 November “What’s in the box, Sheriff?” Lauffner was a good man, but he’d sure fucked up Nick Hall’s life. The prick had never bothered to tell him about the box, or, at least, what was in it. Because if Nick Hall had known any of this shit,…
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STATE OF DISASTER 10
Ten The Man in the White Tuxedo Chesapeake Bay 15 November Thursday Communications were still down. Some of the power grid had been restored, but essentially remained offline. The weather had cleared, and warm, sunny days helped ice melt, but that only revealed the horrors of the dead who had been buried by the White…
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STATE OF DISASTER 13
“Death from Above” Columbia 04:30 Joe knew they were killing him, but he couldn’t know anything else but burning pain. His Desert Eagle lay somewhere nearby, forgotten and covered quickly by snow. The spirits of evil were so powerful now, feeding off his terror and his anger that he was dying right after falling in…
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STATE OF DISASTER 16
“The Missing Man” MHI Headquarters Vincent Anta’s Home 18 December 17:13 No one wanted to be alone. Shock was setting in and everyone did a lot of staring without much blinking. Few words were said. Zelda knew how to break the spell: lots of hot coffee and her homemade bread, still hot from the oven,…
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STATE OF DISASTER 17
“El Stupido Bandito” Anne Arundel Hills Mall Saturday December 22 11:16 With Hippie back to his “normal” self, never far from Shannon, who he kissed constantly, everyone was in a better mood. Several malls had opened, and Joe and Angie were doing some Christmas shopping. Presently, Joe was at a counter eating a bacon, egg…
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STATE OF DISASTER 24
Twenty-four “The First Lady” Hippie went home under the exaggerated need to check on things because of a deep freeze. He really did check his furnace, and made sure no pipes had frozen, taking a further precaution to let faucets run at a trickle in case the gas supply was interrupted, but mainly because he…
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STATE OF DISASTER 29
Twenty-nine “Amy” Exeter Academy — Hippie was uneasy, and the minute Vince drove the command vehicle down the hill from Exeter Road, blue lights glared everywhere and he felt a fear of something he had no reason to. He’d never been here before, yet it felt familiar. He had a flash of the place in…