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The sunlight shined through the gossamer curtains and hit my face. I awoke gently, blinking several times as my eyes tried to adjust to the light. As the window became clearer and clearer, I couldn't place it. I sat up trying to remember where I was. "Vicki?" said a deep voice from behind me. I turned and behind me were the sleep hazed eyes of my husband. Everything hit me at once and I began to shake. He wrapped me in his arms as he had done every morning since our return. We got back to that tiny shore side town to find Craig, Erin and Marcus had been waiting for us at the edge of the pier. They had greeted us like heroes, and I hadn't been able to stop holding Marcus or checking him over to make sure he was okay. Other than the rope burns he seemed physically okay. There was a haunting look in his eyes, but he refused to talk about what had happened while he had been an Eater. I had been forced to let it go after a while, but not before I made him promise to talk to me when
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It started out slowly, quietly as epidemics usually do. But this was no epidemic. This was no virus that the medical community could study or solved. This was something else. Something that could only be dreamt up in the darkest recesses of the mind. It was a curse. A curse set upon us by a madwoman bent on either ruling the world or destroying it. I know what you are thinking, curses aren't real. They are a silly made up superstition given to us to help explain things that aren't rational. Well, tell that to those who have succumbed to it, because I'm not sure they know just yet. I want you to tell that to all those who are weeping in grief because this thing took their family from them. But I'm getting ahead of myself, let me take you back to when it all started-I slammed my head against the wheel as hard as I could, realizing I had gone through this parking lot for the fifth time. "Damn it, how the hell do I get lost in my own city?" I cried to the bobblehead dog on the dash.
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I know you are wondering at this point when it'll start moving along and when I will start to finally explain how things got so bad. Just bear with me it'll happen sooner than you think. I hated waiting rooms at the doctor's office. They were always so cheerful and brightly lit that you ended up wanting to tear a wall down by the time the nurse called you back. Watching a cough rack my son's tiny body, did not make this time any better. I pulled his head on my lap and began running my fingers over the little brown curls as I watched the TV. The sound was down but someone had turned the captions on, so I was able to keep up with the story even though it lagged a bit. The news program was about the virus epidemic that was sweeping the nation. According to the reporter, this contagious virus was dropping people like flies all around the world. The hospitals were overflowing with the sick and doctors didn't know what to make of it. There had even been several reports of extreme cases wh
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My heart began to race and the sense of dread that I had been fighting swamped me. I threw open the door to my pickup and jumped in, barely even throwing my seatbelt on before I threw it into gear and floored it. The sounds of angry horns once again accompanied me as I sped down the street. This time, I didn't stop until I reached Marcus' school. I grabbed Johnathan out and raced into the school, almost running over a few ladies from the office in the process."Mrs. Andrews what are you doing here?" the teacher asked in shock as I stormed into the classroom. I ignored her as I searched for and finally spotted Marcus' dark brown hair. His confused eyes connected with my panicked ones. "Marcus, come with me we need to get home," I said ignoring the teacher. "What's going on, Mom?" he said worriedly responding to the urgency in my voice. I didn't answer as I grabbed his stuff and shuffled him out the door still ignoring the protest of the other adults. "What's going on, Mom?" Marcus
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I looked down and there was a solid silver chain with a beautiful black stone hanging off it. In the center of the stone was a brilliant yellow star that caught the sunlight just perfectly, so it seemed to twinkle and dance. I looked back up at the woman in amazement, but she had vanished. My gaze swung around the street and over by the river that separated the school from the farmlands. Although, there was no sign as to where she had come from or where she went. The wall that had been keeping me upright suddenly disappeared and I fell on my butt with a hard thud. Looking behind me I realized there had never been a wall there and assumed that it had been my own mind that had prevented me from moving further back. A glint from the silver chain caught my eye and I picked it up gingerly as if it were a hot rock about to burn me. After all, it was rather warm as if it were heated from the inside out. I turned the stone this way and that, staring at the beauty of it in awe. The yellow star
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"Can you do that for me, sweetheart? I want to go try and find your mom.""No!" she suddenly screamed and wrapped her little arms around my neck. She squeezed so tightly that it almost cut off the airways and if she had been a little stronger, it probably would have. "Melissa, I need to go help your mother if I can. Please, let me do this," I begged. "She's a monster," she whispered into my neck. I wrapped my arms around her and held her close unsure of what to say back. There were no words I could find to reassure a little girl that her mother was not a monster if she had been acting anything like the people across the field. I held her for a moment longer until she sniffled then rubbed her forehead on my shirt. I silently begged her not to wipe her nose off on me as little kids were apt to do and then I set her away from me. A rustling from the bushes drew our attention to it. "Please, let that be a dog," I whispered to the sky. Melissa buried her head in the crook of my neck
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An unearthly bellow from the other side of the field stopped my victory dance short and was a harsh reminder that I needed to get out of here. I raced back to the truck and was about to jump in when I heard a scream from inside the school. My heart dropped to my stomach as I thought of all those kids in there. I looked in the back seat and saw that Marcus and Melissa were huddled together right next to Johnathan's car seat. Johnathan was looking paler by the second, but I took heart in the fact that his chest was still rising. I stared at Marcus for a moment trying to decide what I wanted to do and what the right thing to do was. I think he must have read my mind because he looked down at Melissa then shook his head desperately, begging me not to go. I spied my cell phone on the seat and an idea came to mind. I ripped open the truck door and tried to ignore the sounds coming from behind me. I hopped in and grabbed the phone hoping that this call to 911 would go a lot better than my la
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I lingered for a moment before stepping out. hoping it wouldn't be the last time, I would be able to tell him that. I locked the door to the truck and shut the door firmly so I knew it was closed completely, worrying that if it wasn't they wouldn't be safe.Walking up to the house, the ominous silence that radiated from it had my gut winding tighter and tighter. My hands shook so hard I dropped the keys while trying to unlock the door. I finally got it unlocked and I slowly opened it, grimacing at the creepy horror house squeak it made that echoed disturbingly in the silence. I left it wide open so that I could make a quick escape if I needed to. I stepped inside quietly and began searching for some sign that my husband was okay. I heard a noise coming from the back room and I stopped in my tracks. My heart pounded in my ears as I waited, frozen to the spot. A high-pitched mewling whine from the back room killed that hope as it began to bloom. Tears welled up in my eyes as I recognize
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