Ep.186 – Night of the Tyrants - Meth Tweakers vs. Behemoths!

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After these quick words Night of the
Time hyants by David O'Hanlon. Good things

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come to those who wait, Leslie
Bonner said in his Low Texan drawl before

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taking a pull off of his Marlborough
bad things come to those who live here.

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He wasn't wrong. The town of
Fortune, Missouri, had a way

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of dishing out horrible fates for its
residence. Bruce and Maggie Boudreau knelt on

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the stained carpet of the single wide
trailer that sat on the far western edge

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of the Gables, a trailer part
converted into an industrial sized meth lab by

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the Dixie mafia. If you lived
in Fortune, you either worked for the

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Gables or the waste containment facility.
Bruce wasn't about to risk his health handling

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toxic waste. Cooking crank had been
much safer, at least until he stole

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ten kilos of uncut ice. Mags
wanted new tits, and Bruce couldn't object

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to that. His cock came up
with the plan before his brain had a

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chance to consider the logistics of moving
so much product. He'd never sold dope

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before in any quantity, but it
seemed simple enough. Took less than a

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week to find a buyer for the
whole damn batch, as it were.

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Unfortunately, the buyer turned out to
be and undercover fed. Bruce and Mag's

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escaped, but their car was left
on the side of the road. Bonner's

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mole in the d EA tipped him
off, and he made the trip over

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from Nashville to deal with the mess. The entire operation would be relocated,

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which would mean months of lost production, months that Bruce and Maggie wouldn't be

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around for. Leslie knelt behind Maggie, blowing a spear of smoke passed her

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face. His pewter eyes cut down
her bony back to the tramp stamp,

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above the exposed neon green strings of
her thong. He glanced at Bruce with

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his sleeveless flannel shirt and stickin' poke
tattoos. He wasn't sure if the couple

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were cliche stereotypes or if Jack Turney
had decided on this being the official uniform

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of all of his employees. Jack
rocked on a stool to the Springsteen tape

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playing on the boombox. Leslie never
liked Jack personally, but he was the

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best choice to run the lab.
He'd been a manager at Walmart, after

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all. Killing him wouldn't exactly be
wasteful, but it wouldn't be the most

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pragmatic choice either. Leslie tongued a
chipped molar and weighed his options. It

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wasn't like he could take out an
ad and a help wanted section. Leslie

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eyed the man carefully and flicked his
ash on the carpet. Jack could live

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the other two would just have to
die more painfully. To make sure the

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point still got across, Leslie extinguished
the cigarette behind Maggie's ear. She fell

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forward, shrieking before curling up in
a fetal position. What the fuck,

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Bruce howled, Stop that, leave
her alone. Leslie backhanded him across the

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cheek. His topaz ring tore a
divot from the tweaker's gaunt face. Maggie's

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screams seemed to get louder, changing
pitch, and then went on forever.

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Jack stopped rocking and looked at one
of the foil covered windows. The aluminum

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blocked the heat signature of the labs
from the police choppers using infrared scanners,

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but it also left the occupants blind
to the outside world. His shaking hand

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battered the top of the radio until
he found the stop button. Leslie turned

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his ear up to the ceiling.
It wasn't his victim he was hearing.

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That's an emergency siren. Jack stammered, something's happened at the waste plant,

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toxic spill, maybe shit, nothing
else. It could be great, Leslie

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hissed. He stood slowly scratching at
his chin. A smile creased his face.

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And he gave Mags a kick in
the tailbone. Actually, this is

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great, fucking full on active God
great, how you figure that? Less?

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Jack chewed his fingernails and anticipation of
the answer FEDS can't snoop around if

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the whole area has gone nuclear or
whatever the shit they have out there,

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Leslie chopped his hand down on the
back of Bruce's neck and sent him crashing

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over. What the hell do they
have over there? Nothing good, Jack

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muttered. Maggie crawled on her knees
to Bruce's side and stroked his face.

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You okay, baby, of course
he is, Leslie snorted. I ain't

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about to kill either of you that
quick, Just a little thump to make

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sure you're both paying attention, you
bastard. Maggie sniffled. The running mascara

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became white trash warpaint as she glared
at him defiantly. If I wasn't tied

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up, you'd be. The trailer
rocked violently. Leslie drew the oversized Laar

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grizzly pistol from his shoulder holster and
went to the nearest window, ripping away

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the tinfoil that covered it. For
a peek outside, He scanned the park

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for anything out of the ordinary,
but only saw more of his employees stepping

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out of their trailers to investigate for
themselves. Was that one of the labs?

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Jack asked, shakily, too far
away. Less reassured him. Something

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must have gone really rotten up at
the chemical depot. You keep any respirators

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in here? Jack nodded and jabbed
a finger toward a cabinet near the sink.

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Good Leslie waved him towards the window
with the pistol. Come watch for

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anything unusual. Jack did as instructed. He cupped his hands around his eyes

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and pressed them to the glass for
a better look. One of the crook

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from the nearest lab lifted his safety
goggles and squinted into the surrounding woods.

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The man took a few tentative steps
forward, then stopped. He was pointing

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at something. Jack turned to tell
Leslie when he noticed Bruce Hey knock it

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off. Jack grabbed a half empty
Schlitzkan and chucked it at him. Bruce

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flinched as it bounced off his shoulder, and the tiny pocket knife clattered to

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the floor. Mag snatched it up
quickly. Boss. The bimbo thinks she's

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being cute, Jack tattled, she
is cute, Jack, Just look at

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that face. Leslie cocked the hammer
back. Wonder if it'll still be cute

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dripping down the wall. Maggie looked
from Jack to the gun, then up

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to the surgical eyes of Leslie Bonner. He wasn't bluffing. She turned the

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knife over in her hands and stabbed
it into the floor. Less took a

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respirator from the cabinet without looking.
Jack snapped his fingers and pointed to the

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far wall. Get your bony ass
over there until you're told otherwise. He

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waited for her to stand before turning
his attention back to the window. Leslie

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set the gun down long enough to
get the mask on. The glass exploded

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inward, and Jack staggered backwards.
He stumbled left, then right, then

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forward, back again. Maggie screams
filled the meth lab, rivaling the siren

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outside. Leslie snapped the gun up
into a two handed grip and aimed at

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the window. Jack continued to square
dance, blood splashing against the ceiling from

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the stump on his shoulders. He
finally collapsed next to Bruce, knocking over

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an ether tank in the process.
His severed artery spurted the prisoner's face drawings

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and whiny curses. Bruce rose to
his knees and scuttled away from the corpse.

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Where the fuck is his head,
Leslie barked. He swung the pistol

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toward Maggie. What the what happened? There's something out there, she shrieked.

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It it bit off his goddamn head, obviously, Leslie changed his aim

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back to the window. But what
was it? Hungry, you dumb son

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of a bitch, Bruce cried,
That's what it was. It's a monster.

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I'm the only monster here, Bubba, Leslie reminded him. People were

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screaming outside. The trailer rocked and
the ceiling creaked as something heavy settled onto

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it. Footfalls thumped like sledgehammer blows
overhead. Maggie slid across the carpet on

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her knees for the knife. She
began sawing through the ropes. As whatever

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was stalking across the roof came to
a stop, Director Lee above her,

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something flashed past the broken window.
Leslie's pistol unleashed a clap of artificial thunder

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and blasted a chunk from the frame. Bruce cupped his hands over his ears.

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Jesus, couldn't you find something smaller, he whined, Sure, lend

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me your pecker. Leslie stomped over
to Maggie and snatched the knife from her.

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He pressed the edge against her cheek. The respirator made his eyes appear

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even less human. He cut her
loose with a precise slash and dropped the

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blade in front of her with a
nod to Bruce. Cut the little bitch

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loose, he grumbled, I could
use an extra canary. Maggie did as

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instructed, then closed the knife and
tucked it into her holter top. She

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helped Bruce to his feet, wiping
Jack's blood from his face. It's going

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to be all right, baby,
she lied to him. The thing on

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the roof shifted its weight, crumpling
the tin loudly. Leslie fired two shots

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through the ceiling. The muzzles fireball
made the cloud of dislodged asbestos twinkle as

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it swirled around them. Crimson drops
falling through a fist sized hole spotted the

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carpet. Leslie grunted contently. Whatever
it is, it ain't bulletproof, he

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mused. The trailer shook as something
threw itself against the wall. Outside.

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It ain't happy neither, Bruce said, we can't stay here. I agree,

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Leslie jabbed him in the gut with
the pistol. You're going to hold

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the door open for us? Fuck
that? Bruce shook his head. Ain't

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that something? Leslie eyed him over, then turned to Maggie. It's not

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every day you meet a broad with
two pussies. Her face reddened as much

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from embarrassment as anger. Bruce was
as a sweet guy, and he treated

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her nice. She'd married him because
she genuinely liked him, after all,

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But Leslie was right. He was
a fucking coward. She squeezed Bruce's scrawny

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arm. Please, sugar, it'll
be all right. She looked at the

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wall behind them as the thing outside
rammed it again. The panels split from

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the blow. See that it's on
the other side of the trailer. Just

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go open the door. What if
there's more than one, Bruce asked,

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Then you wouldn't be able to count
them anyhow. Leslie moved the gun to

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Maggie's pink lips. You opened the
door right now, and perhaps I find

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something I'd like to shoot more than
your old lady. Get it, Bubba,

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I get it. He mumbled.
Bruce's shoulders sagged and he scuffled to

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the door like a scolded child.
He gripped the knob, but froze there.

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Maggie turned on her heel and kicked
the wall. She beat her fists

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against the wood paneling, and the
monster revved up its attacks. The trailer

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home rocked from the thing's assault.
She looked over her shoulder to Bruce.

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Hurry up, baby, I'll keep
it distracted over here, she told him.

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Yeah, Leslie hissed, good idea. He joined her at the wall,

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stomping his shit kicker against it and
whooping like a night at the rodeo.

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Maggie screamed profanities at the unseen evil
outside. It shrieked back, stopping

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the humans dead still they'd officially pissed
it off. Claws dragged across the aluminum

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siding outside. The high pitched grating
made Maggie cover her ears instinctively. Less

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ground his teeth together. The way
it switched from furiously battering the structure to

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meticulously scratching at it was familiar.
It was the sort of six psychological game

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he played to rattle people. Maybe
he really wasn't the only monster in the

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gables. The door creaked on its
hinges, and Leslie whirled around, expecting

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something to shoot. He stared at
Bruce's back, waiting for the monster to

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pull him outside or snap off his
head like poor Jack. Bruce turned slowly,

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his face whiter than normal. He
ran to the sink, vomiting loudly

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into the steel basin. What is
it, Leslie demanded. Bruce pointed to

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the door between heaves. Less leaned
and craned his neck to see without having

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to get closer. It wasn't a
great view, but it was enough.

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In the piss yellow light of the
street lamps, he could see the body

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parts wrapped in the tattered remains of
white tyvek coveralls and the bare open rib

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cage of the torso. He cocked
his head. The urge to join Bruce

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at the sink swelled in the back
of his throat. The torso and the

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limbs were from two different bodies.
The damnable thing outside had been ripping his

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employees to shreds. Why did it
get quiet, Mag's whispered, because it

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wants to scare us, Leslie said, certain that he understood it. Whatever

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it was, we heard, it
made it personal. It wants to play

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with us. You heard it,
you stupid asshole, Maggie corrected him.

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You got the fucking gun. That's
right, I fucking do. He grabbed

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her by the back of the neck, and I got the keys to the

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chevy outside. You pick which one
gets you out of here. I'll take

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the truck, she snarled. Then
go check that the coast is clear.

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He gave her a shove. She
gripped the door jam and rocked on the

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balls of her feet. She took
a deep breath to steal her nerves,

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then shot her head outside for a
quick look in both directions. She back

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pedaled quick as she could. It's
clear there's nothing out there but dead folk.

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She sniffled, and wiped her nose
with the back of her hand.

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Lots of em. Well, it's
a dangerous job. Less strolled to meet

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her, digging the keys out of
his black jeans along the way. Let's

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blow this joint. Something blew,
all right. The trailer's windows shook and

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the siding rattled. The creature outside
screamed, and another answered it, then

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a third, a fourth. Their
primal calls carried with the rumble of the

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explosion. It wasn't like the first
one. It was smaller, full of

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metallic clattering, and it was a
lot closer. Most of the ingredients were

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volatile, and Less made sure his
people had the purest, high grade versions

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of all of them for his brand
of crank. Explosions were any occupational hazard

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under normal conditions, and the night
had been anything but normal. The creature

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sprang through the open door, bending
the frame with its girth. Leslie brought

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the pistol up and fired without thinking. A hunk of pebbled brown green skin

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tore from its shoulder. It wriggled
inside, its elongated snout stretched open in

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a shrill, angry call. It
slouched and snapped at Maggie's ankles. She

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jumped backwards, crashing through a table
of Pyrex dishes and beakers. Less fired

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again. The jacketed hollow point punched
into the creature's chest. A stubby,

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clawed forearm dangled from its twisting sinew. Another round blasted through the billowing leathery

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neck and painted the wall with a
thick arterial spray. The final shot passed

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through its eye, turning its head
into a gory party popper that littered the

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trailer with bits of brain matter and
skull fragments. It collapsed, with its

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powerful hind legs, twitching and shredding
the carpet. Bruce walked to it cautiously.

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Leslie joined him, followed by a
limping Maggie. The top of the

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thing's head was gone, its nose
laid three feet to the left, but

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the bottom jaw and its curved,
serrated teeth were still intact. The thick

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muscular tail squirmed on the floor the
way a snake does after its head's been

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chopped off. Maggie sagged to the
carpet beside it. It can't be,

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she said, it is, Leslie
informed her. He smiled big, the

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way only a Texan wood in such
situations. Sweet cheeks, we just killed

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us a dinosaur. Don't go away
weakly, Spooky will be right back.

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Dinosaurs ain't even real, Bruce shouted, Less hit him with the pistol,

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driving him to his knees next to
his wife. They are, and there's

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plenty more of them, Leslie growled, at least three. Matter of fact,

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let's go to that truck. Mag
whispered. She snapped her eyes to

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Leslie. Now the keys fell into
her lap. She held them up by

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the rabbit foot keychain for good luck, Less explained, the rabbit had four

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of them, and look how he
wound up. She stood skirting around the

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dinosaur carcass. The tail flopped about
to block her path to the door.

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She tried stepping over, and it
swept her leg, making her stumble forward.

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Leslie watched her topple over the threshold
and disappear off the rickety steps.

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He couldn't hear her hit the round
over the still screaming siren. He heard

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other things, though. Gunshots popped
off around the gables, the sound of

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his employees fighting back against the prehistoric
superpredators. Screaming and roars interrupted sporadically,

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then less screaming, then less shooting. He didn't get to Fortune often,

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so he wasn't sure how many people
Jack employed, but so long as they

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were fighting, it meant the dinosaurs
were distracted. He gave Bruce a kick

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in the hip. Get up,
I think we should hide, Bruce said,

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sniffling. The alarm means the depot
called for help, don't it.

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How the fuck should I know?
Leslie looked down at the dinosaur and huffed,

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Oh, hell, we'd better hope
that ain't what it means. Huh.

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Goddamn boy, This lizard's brains are
all over the living room, and

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it's still smarter than you. Les
grabbed Bruce's collar and hoisted him to his

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feet. They said, it's a
chemical storage sight, but they're making dinosaurs.

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Don't you get it. Bruce stared
at Leslie for a long moment before

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shrugging. He did not get it. It's a secret project where no one's

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gonna give a fuck about it.
Leslie explained. This town's always had shit

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luck and plenty of it. One
more disaster ain't gonna hurt nothing. Whoever's

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running the operation, really running it
is going to kill every mother fucking Pecker

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Wooden fortune and blame the whole thing
on a chemical spill. Oh. Bruce

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bit his lip. His eyes widened
when it all sank in. Oh,

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we gotta go. Glad you approve
of the plan. Leslie rolled his wrist.

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The pistol felt reassuring in his hand, but it also felt light.

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He ejected the magazine and tossed it
over his shoulder. It clattered into the

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kitchen. He eased the slide back
a bit, but didn't look. It

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took him three more seconds to get
up the nerve for that. He glanced

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quickly, scared of what he'd find. He gave a sigh of relief at

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the hint of polished brass. There
was still one bullet in the chamber.

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He couldn't waste it on Bruce,
not until the now leaving Missouri sign was

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miles behind them. Anyhow, the
sudden rumble of his truck brought him back

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to the present. He gave Bruce
a shove toward the door. The dinosaur's

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tail flailed once more and fell still, as if letting them pass by choice.

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Headlights blazed across the yard, and
the truck slid to a stop in

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front of the porch. Less.
Gave Bruce another prod to exit. Would

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you look at that, Bubba,
Your old ladies come to save your sorry

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ass. Best we don't keep her
waiting. He nudged him with the gun

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for emphasis. Bruce nodded and eased
himself forward. Maggie was waving frantically for

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him to hurry. The tweaker watched
the dino tail, expecting it to jump

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up again. He made it out
onto the porch without incident and breathed a

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heavy sigh, just get in the
bed, baby, mag shouted, We

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need to hurry. The whole mountain's
on fire. I've just seen one of

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them things. Bruce saw one too. It launched itself into the bed of

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the truck, slamming its snout through
the back glass in one fluid motion.

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Bruce watched it bite through the dashboard
with a crunch. He screamed and jumped

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over the dead sourus, sprinting back
into the safety of the meth lab.

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You fucking coward, Leslie shouted.
The gangster knelt and braced the pistol over

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his arm, taking aim into the
cab of his truck. There was no

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clean shot. Maggie pushed the door
and it banged against the porch an inch

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away. She was trapped. The
monster spat out the vinyl and swatted Maggie

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with its snap out. It squirmed
in place, breaking away safety glass with

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its thick neck. In an attempt
to get a better angle on the succulent

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human morsel, A forelimb shot into
the cab, rending the leather seats.

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Maggie tried to go out the window, but was stopped by another blow from

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the dinosaur's skull. It bared its
teeth in front of her face. The

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fetid, hot breath reeked of blood
and the scraps of raw meat clinging between

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the serrated fangs. It snapped down. Maggie jerked her head away, leaving

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a clump of AquaNet flavored curls in
the beast's mouth. Her foot battered the

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petals in her attempt to escape.
The engine revved, drawing a hiss from

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the monster. The dinosaur's fingers curled
around the steering wheel. It wrestled itself

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further into the cab, rocking the
truck violently. With the effort, the

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monster tried to bite again, nipping
away a piece of flesh from Maggie's shoulder.

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She saw Leslie in the doorway,
taking aim but holding his fire.

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She didn't see her loving husband,
However, Leslie holstered the weapon and turned

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his head down. If Maggie was
going to survive, she'd have to save

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her own ass. Another hot breath
hissed across her flesh. She swung her

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hand around, looking for salvation.
Her fingers struck the chrome skull atop the

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gearshift. She stumped the clutch to
the floor. The steering column shattered as

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the wheel was wrenched from it.
Maggie hooked her fingers around the skull and

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forced the shifter into gear. The
truck crawled forward. She slammed into the

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door, banging it into the porch
again again, one more time to no

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avail. The roof of the cab
bent, allowing the dinosaur the room to

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move. It reached its head back
and hissed. Maggie threw herself against the

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door again, Still trapped, the
monster spread its jaws and lunged for a

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killing chomp. Maggie's face hit the
ground, shattering her nose. She'd never

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been so happy to hurt so bad. The snap of the teeth closing behind

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her echoed in her skull. She
rubbed the tears from her eyes and watched

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the truck roll away, with the
dinosaur wrestling in the entrapment. It roared

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and shrieked furiously. The others answered
the cries. Trees shook as one of

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them ran to its pack mate.
The chemical plant or whatever it really was,

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had blown sky high and set the
mountain the blaze. The orange red

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hell fire of the spreading inferno revealed
the shadow of the beast, a realization

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far more terrifying than her brush with
death came to Maggie. She pushed herself

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from the ground and ran back into
the trailer. Thought you we're a goner,

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Leslie said. He shrugged with a
grin. Told you the rabbit foot

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was lucky. Maggie slugged him across
the jaw, sending him reeling into the

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kitchen. A second punch caught him
in the temple. He blinked away the

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stars in his vision and found himself
nose to nose with Maggie. He felt

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the prick of her blade against the
prick in his jeans. She gripped the

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strings of his bolo tie and twisted
the pocket knife, drawing a grunt from

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Less and making him rise on his
tiptoes. You could have shot it,

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she growled. Only have one bullet
left, he informed her, saving it

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for a special occasion. Killing a
dinosaur ain't special enough for you. Already

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did that tonight. Better be prepared
to do it a few more times.

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Maggie relaxed her grip. The truck's
gone. We're gonna need new wheels,

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baby, Bruce said, in a
shaky, uncertain voice. Baby, you

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made it. Maggie turned to face
him. Blood poured freely from her nose

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down to the buttons of her denim
shorts. Bruce's face paled at the sight

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of his frail little wife, bloodied
face, streaked with running makeup, and

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a knife digging into a drug lord
scrotum. His mouth moved silently, sampling

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the possible apologies for running away.
Maggie stared toward him, and he took

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an instinctive step back. Baby,
maybe just calm down, He gulped,

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knowing that was exactly what not to
say. I mean a fuck. Maggie

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gave him a shove and pointed the
knife at him. She knelt next to

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Jack Turney's corpse. The keys jangled
as she jerked them from his pants.

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She looked at the dead dinosaur.
Remembering the scene outside, She stuffed the

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keys into the shallow pocket of her
shorts. We got a rye, she

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said. Now we just need a
plan. Jack's parked two trailers over.

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Less indicated the direction with his thumb. We only got one bullet to get

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us there. You didn't bring anymore, Bruce asked, incredulously. I was

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only planning on killing the two of
you. Less shrugged. Maggie pulled a

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vial of crank from Jack's shirt and
treated both blood filled nostrils to a sample.

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It burned like a motherfucker all the
way up, and the chemical rushed

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down the back of her throat.
Was a mix of copper and ammonia,

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with the bitter aftertaste of a phedron. She ground her teeth while it went

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to work on her nervous system.
Less and Bruce were arguing, but she

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couldn't make out a word of it. They needed a plan, and nothing

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on earth is more creative than a
tweaker with a fresh toote up their nose.

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She crawled along the floor to retrieve
something shiny. She stood up,

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linging the cylinder over her shoulder.
She elbowed, passed Leslie into the kitchen

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and let the ether canister clank onto
the countertop. Maggie continued tearing through the

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cabinets for various supplies without speaking to
the men, despite their questions and pestering.

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It took another fifteen minutes to assemble
the components and attach a makeshift's sling

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to the newly formed apparatus. Maggie
slung it onto her back and held up

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a long barreled wand made from the
sink's p trap and a section of shower

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curtain rod. She waved it around
the room, pointing it at imaginary monsters.

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Guttural growls outside told her time was
almost up. She stripped a barbecue

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lighter to its bare essentials and used
duct tape liberally to finish up her project.

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Less looked it over and raised an
eyebrow, then snapped his fingers.

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I'll be damned, he said,
with an appreciative whistle. Little lady made

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us a flamethrow me, she corrected
him, clicking the switch to ignite the

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pilot light. I made me a
flamethrower. You and your one bullet are

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following to make sure nothing tries biting
my ass. What about me, Bruce

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asked, Oh, sugar, I
got a perfect job for you. Maggie

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smiled menacingly. Since you like running, you can lead the way to the

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car. You know which one,
the big blue caddie you're always oglin' get

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movin'. But a whoosh of flame
ignited the curtains to let him know she

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was not fucking around. Bruce nodded
and cut a quick path to the door.

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He didn't waste time, stepping outside
a woman with a flamethrower is scarier

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than any monster, it turns out. He looked around and gave them a

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thumbs up before jumping down from the
porch. Maggie unless joined him A moment

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later. The gangster pointed to a
ramshackle trailer. A mangled body hung out

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of one of the busted wind dos, and pieces of another meth cook decorated

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the yard like gory gnomes. Other
side of that one, Les whispered,

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that's where he's parked. They scurried
across the open avenue quickly and ducked into

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the shadow of the nearest lab.
The trio kept low, moving slowly and

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watching for the rest of the prehistoric
monstrosities. Maggie's mind kept racing back to

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the one she'd seen in the firelight, pained fear, methamphetamines, a lot

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of shit going through her system that
could have made her see things that weren't

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there, but she knew that wasn't
the case. It was real, she'd

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seen it, and she knew damn
well that she was right. The chittering

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of one of the creatures froze them
all in their tracks. It limped out

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into a yellow pool of light,
Leslie bit his bottom lip. The thing

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was missing a few toes, and
he knew it was the one he'd shot

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on the roof. It lowered its
head to the ground, sniffing around.

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It visibly tensed and let out a
raspy bark. It called again, turning

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in a slow circle. Maggie never
took her eyes off it as she prodded

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Bruce to continue on. It'll see
us, he whispered under the porch.

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She told him. Bruce crawled forward, disappearing through a gap in the broken

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lattice work around the porch's base.
He held out a hand and waved for

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the others. They started forward.
When Leslie grabbed Maggie's ankle, she glared

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over her shoulder, ready to burn
him alive on the spot. He shook

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his head and pointed at the porch. Bruce's waving arm was all she could

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see. The rest of him was
completely cloaked in the darkness beyond. Then

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it moved. The glint of eyeshine
was right behind her husband. His arm

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jerked under the porch, impossibly fat. She heard the wet crunching before he

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could cry out. Maggie screamed furiously
and cranked the valve wide open. A

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spear of flame shot through the opening, igniting the porch in a flash.

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She saw the burning lizard dart under
the trailer and followed it with a sustained

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blast from her weapon. Time to
leave, Leslie shouted, trying to pull

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Maggie up by the band of her
shorts. It's gonna blow. She looked

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up at the lab, now a
five alarmed structure fire and knew he was

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right. The dinosaur shrieked in agony
as it cooked in the crawl space.

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The wounded one limped at them fast
as it could manage. Maggie spun and

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put a wall of fire between it
and them. The dinosaur couldn't stop fast

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enough on its injured foot. It
toppled over and cried out. As Maggie

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adjusted her aim to burn it too. They rounded the trailer. Jack's blue

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El Dorado was waiting in a ground
level parking spot a hundred yards away.

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They ran as hard as they could. Leslie passed her and got to the

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car first. He pulled the door
handle, only to find it was locked.

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He looked back and held out his
hand for the keys. The ground

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trembled around him. Maggie slid to
a stop, falling flat on her ass.

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Leslie looked at her curiously. Loud, fast thumps echoed through the night,

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each one reverberated through his body.
He glanced at the caddy's side mirror

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and the warning that the object within
was closer than it appeared. He rolled

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his wrist. The guns still felt, reassuring it was the special occasion he'd

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been saving that bullet for. He
whipped the muzzle under his chin. The

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mother Tyrannosaurus snatched him off the ground
and her powerful jaws, her teeth shredded

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his guts and snapped through his back. There was a muffled pop as the

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gun went off inside her mouth.
She slung her head from side to side

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until his lower appendages sailed over the
top of a trailer. She turned her

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snout up and choked down Leslie's torso
hole. Maggie got to her feet and

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fired the flamethrower in short bursts,
like a lion tamer cracking a whip.

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The big Mama backed up slowly.
The meth lab she'd set ablaze exploded,

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startling the creature. Maggie got to
the car and reached into her pocket.

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Four nothing The keys were gone.
She looked back and saw them shimmering in

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the firelight where she'd fallen. The
flamethrower sputtered. She discarded it and dropped

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to the ground, rolling under the
car. As the beast scooped up a

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mouthful of gravel, it bashed its
head against car, shoving it to the

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side. Maggie scooted along to stay
underneath it. The explosion had thrown flaming

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materials into the surrounding mobile homes.
They were all starting to go up.

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She was trapped under a car being
pursued by a dinosaur in the middle of

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Hillbilly Hiroshima. Metal crunched and the
frame of the car got uncomfortably closer to

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her. She crawled on her back
toward the front of the Cadillac. The

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drive shaft tore her halter top open, and for the first time ever,

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she was thankful for her small endowments. She heard the clatter of the knife

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falling out of her ruined top.
Her fingers curled around the wooden grip,

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and she opened it with a dainty
clip that the t Rex answered with a

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mighty roar. Maggie hurried to the
engine compartment and wriggled her arms up,

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groping blindly for the fuel line.
She cut at anything that felt right.

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The third try sent a spurt of
gasolene into her left eye and let her

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know she'd found it. Maggie dropped
the knife and continued forward as the pool

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spread beneath her. She grabbed the
bumper and took a deep breath, holding

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it in while the monstrous Mommy stomped
over the car to the other side.

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Maggie looked at the clawed feet.
It was facing away from the trailers.

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She had a chance. Maggie pulled
hard on the bumper, freeing herself from

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under the car and grating away the
flesh of her shoulders in the process.

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She rolled to her hands and knees, scrambling like mad until she got her

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feet under her and could run.
The trailer exploded the car went up.

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Next, she heard the piste off
roar of the beast. She looked back

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to see it staggering away from the
brutalizing heat. Another lab came apart in

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a massive fireball, engulfing the beast
and spurring her to run faster. The

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glades continued to exploding for another thirty
minutes. And Maggie ran the entire time.

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She could barely hear the small pops
of secondary blasts by the time her

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legs gave out and she collapsed on
the side of County Road two thirty two.

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Her feet twitched like they wanted to
keep going, but the muscles in

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her legs weren't having any of it. Helicopters rumbled overhead on a path toward

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fortune. She rolled onto her back, clapping her hands to get their attention.

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Her lungs were too busy fighting for
air to call out. She slapped

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the ground in defeat. Maybe they
were the army or something, and they'd

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kill that big bitch of a dino
before it caught up with her. Headlights

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crowned a hill further down the street, and Maggie forced herself to her knees.

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She tried to slow down her heaving
breaths, but it was pointless.

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It took all her effort just to
stand. Some thing chittered behind her.

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She bent, putting her hands on
her knees and shook her head. She

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looked at the headlights at her salvation, then over her shoulder, just in

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time to see the teeth closing around
her face. Just when you thought in

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over one hundred and eighty episodes,
Weekly Spooky couldn't possibly do something you weren't

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expecting. I bring you dinosaurs.
Thank you David O'Hanlon for such a wonderful

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and fun story. And I gotta
say I gotta hand it to David.

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I never would have combined dinosaurs and
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average person. Oh no, he's
far more than that. So thank you

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again, David, and thank you
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