Tag: mature readers only
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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 9
Nine “The Lost Hunter” “Hurricane Diablo” had already killed an unknown number of people and animals. He had blown out to sea, but now he was going to return. He kept his name because he was never subtropical; the warm Atlantic had recharged him and decided it didn’t like him very much, and hurled him…
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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 11
Eleven “The Legend of Creepy College” Near Ellicott City 28 November Wednesday Wednesday Full Moon David Shiffle was driving his boss’s best tow truck, grinding gears and spinning wheels on fresh snow and ice as he negotiated an untreated back road. That day a storm had dropped five inches of the cursed shit that no…
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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…