Ep.190 – The Thin Place - In These Woods is an Ancient Curse

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Have you ever been told a story
as a child that you didn't believe but

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it still moved you in your soul? It gave you so much fear.

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I know I did. But what
if those stories weren't just stories? What

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if they were a preparation to live
in a real place, a thin place?

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What's that You want to be scared? Come with me. You will

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experience tales over opera, ghosts,
and death. It is not recommended for

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the weak at heart listeners in the
dark. It's more fun that way way.

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This is Weekly Speaking. Hello,
my spookies, It's Wednesday, and

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I'm your host and narrator, Enrique
Uto, and I cannot wait to

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bring you this pure piece of terror. I love folklore, but as an

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American who lives in Ohio, which
is the setting of tonight's story, I'm

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it's about time we head to the
story, so get ready after these

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quick words The Thin Place by David
O'Hanlon. For every action, there's a

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reaction. My family's Irish, so
it's usually an overreaction. That's how this

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story really starts. Dad ran away
with another woman, and Mom set his

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car on fire, broke the new
girl's nose and knocked Dad's front teeth out.

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They were too big for his mouth
anyway. She got six months in

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county lockup for that. While she
was gone, I was sent to stay

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with her parents. I loved my
grandparents, but six months in Ohio?

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What was I going to do?
A sixteen year old boy has no business

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in Ohio. At the time,
I thought it was going to be the

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death of me. It almost was, and in retrospect was much worse.

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My grandparents were from the Old Country, which probably explains a lot. Gramps

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was a soldier, just not in
a formal army. At the time,

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I didn't know exactly what that meant. During the summer months, he would

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take me shooting and horseback riding while
singing Tiuki Garla. We camped and practiced

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building fires and shelters. He showed
me how to make snares and to fish

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with bare essentials. He was kind
of crazy in hindsight. Grandma was a

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pavey. That's a kind of gypsy, if you want to be a dick

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about it. At night, she
would scare the hell out of me with

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stories of the Slaw and the Dulahan. Then we'd set out cream and cookies

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for the puka, who she swore
groomed the dog and kept the rabbits out

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of her garden. Every morning I
woke up and found the plate clean and

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the saucer empty. Sixteen was far
too old to believe in such things,

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but the decapitated bunny in the garden
certainly made me wonder. Eating the cookies

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was understandable, but Grandma might have
been trying a bit too hard to sell

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her fairy tales when she got to
animal mutilation. At the time, I

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knew they were both a little nuts, But when you're sixteen, you know

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everything until someone comes along to show
you just how wrong you really are.

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It's that kind of story. It
was fall nineteen ninety two and my mom

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was getting out soon, with only
a couple more weeks in the purgatory of

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Ohio. I wanted to do something
fun, but it was Ohio and that

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was impossible. I decided to go
camping in the woods adjacent to their property

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for the night instead. Grandma protest
did, but luckily Gramps had my back.

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He insisted it helped me become a
man and made sure I packed accordingly.

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Then Grandma stuffed another twenty pounds of
junk I didn't need into my backpack.

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She even put in three changes of
clothes and a horseshoe. Yeah,

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yeah, a horseshoe. It was
one night, but she acted like it

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was an epic quest to Mordor.
She also gave me cookies for the puca,

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so he would keep me out of
trouble, like any camper should be.

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I was aware of my basic needs. I set up my tent first,

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and then built a fire pit so
the flames wouldn't spread to refuse on

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the forest floor. I needed food
and I wanted to catch something the way

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my gramps had taught me. I
set a couple of snares for birds and

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squirrels in the low branches of a
nearby tree, and one simple figure four

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trap on the ground. I baited
them all with cookie crumbs, which were

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all that remained of Puca's cookies.
Fairy creatures be damned, Grandma's peanut butter

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cookies were not getting wasted on my
watch. At least, the night had

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turned cooler than I had anticipated.
I should have checked the weather channel,

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but preoccupied myself with making sure my
collection of hustler and jugs were properly hidden.

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So I laid there on my camping
pad, freezing my balls off and

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wishing I had another cookie. My
traps hadn't turned up anything. That was

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probably because the woods were abandoned by
all intelligent life. Sadly, teenagers and

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intelligent life are mutually exclusive things.
It was nearing midnight when I heard the

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snap of the rocks crashing together.
Something had tripped my figure four, and

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I rushed to find out what it
was. The stones were pressed flat against

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one another, and I expected to
find a paper thin ground squirrel flattened between

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them. I might have chosen a
topstone that was too heavy, but I

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wanted to make sure I killed it
cleanly. That was Gramp's number one rule.

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You never caused undue suffering to anything, especially not something that would feed

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and keep you alive. I hefted
the stone and tossed it to the side

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to reveal not one single solitary damn
thing. Whatever set it off must have

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been extremely agile, since the stone
only needed to fall five inches. I

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looked around for tracks, but couldn't
make sense of the ones I found.

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They were deep and long, something
short and chubby, with bare feet and

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five bizarre clawed toes. I should
have packed up my gear and gone home,

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but that wouldn't be a very good
story. I marked the heel of

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the footprint with a twig, and
then repeated the process like Gramps taught me.

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After marking a few I knew the
creatures stride and was able to track

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it with relative ease. My flashlight
was a grungy plastic one from Gramps's tool

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shed, and I hadn't bothered checking
the back batteries. The dim yellow cones

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stretched out in front of me no
more than ten feet, but it was

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enough to get by on. I
followed the trail for the better part of

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thirty minutes before coming to an old
train bridge. Between the iron beams were

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rotten ties and loose gravel. Moss
and wild grasses poked up through the little

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rocks. The flashlight gave me a
drab vision of the bridge, adorned with

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graffiti and tangled ivy. It stretched
over a narrow but seemingly bottomless chasm.

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There were words written in stylistic letters
in colorful explosions across the iron joists.

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Faded on one of the uprights.
In the simplest letters were two words I

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remember from a fairy tale but couldn't
quite place. Coolate lights danced in the

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woods and stole my attention. My
grandma's crazy superstitions flashed forward from my memory.

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Fairy fire. Then I heard the
giggles of girls in a celebratory cheer

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from one of them. Might be
an angry fairy leading me to my doom,

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but it might be horny schoolgirls.
I decided to take my chances and

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sprinted towards the lights, completely forgetting
about the animal I was tracking. I

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could have sworn I heard a tisking
behind me, but there were potential boobs

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in those deep dark woods. I
continued running until the damned flashlight began flickering.

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I slid to a stop and looked
for the lights, finding them a

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few yards to the left and about
a hundred in front of me. I

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closed an eye to get it adjusted
to the dark before the light went out,

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which was sure to happen, and
it did. I continued following the

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girls. When their lights cut off, one after the other. I tried

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to keep my bearings and headed towards
the point where they went dark. It

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didn't take long before I noticed a
new light source, a pale glow grinning

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through the claw like limbs of the
shadowy trees. I kept my pace steady,

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but slow enough that I wouldn't slip
down a hill or get impaled on

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a branch. The woods slowly parted, and there I saw a simple cabin.

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Something vaguely resembling music pulsed from inside, but I was too far away

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for it to be more than just
thumping bass. The rhythm seemed nice,

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though. I stumbled over a dead
branch and crept up the stairs. I

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stood in front of the door with
my fist raised to knock. I could

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hear the music clearer now. It
was some new pop tune that I remembered

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from the car ride from Tennessee.
I couldn't recall the name, and it

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didn't really matter. A couple of
the girls were carrying on, and then

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I heard a deeper laugh. I
lowered my hand and decided to try my

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luck in the woods. Then I
remembered the words on the bridge and the

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strange footprints I had followed to it. I raised my fist to knock one

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more time when the steps behind me
creaked, and then my face hit the

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hardwood of the door. Who the
hell are you? The tone was gruff,

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but the voice had the slight squeak
of someone who hit puberty late Richard

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Richard Spangler. The door was rough, and the splinters pricked my cheek When

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I spoke, The vicelike grip on
the back of my neck loosened and I

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was spun around. A stocky brute
with a face fit for an oxema commercial

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greeted me. He pointed an accusatory
finger at me. Weird kid. I

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pointed back and smiled, asshole from
the gas station. He straightened his greasy

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so high a shirt over his man
boobs. It's Goren, Yeah, I

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can read it right there on your
shirt. That's the kind of convenience I

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expect from Standard Oil. What do
you want? Goren was a linebacker with

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a future and mall security, but
I wasn't particularly interested in walking through the

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dark woods with a permanent wedgie,
so I decided to be nice. I

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was camping and my flashlight died.
I saw the lights heading this way and

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decided to see if you guys could
spare some batteries. Doubt there's any here,

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but you can come in, I
guess. He moved me aside and

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opened the door with a gesture for
me to enter. He gave me a

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hard shove as I did, so
that I stumbled through the threshold. Thankscorn,

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I don't think I could have made
it on my own. Hey,

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guys, dick Spanker is here,
I sighed. Of all the wrongs my

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father had committed against me, none
was more grievous than the name he gave

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me. I hope he choked on
the teeth my mom knocked out. You

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know I've heard that name since fifth
grade. You know you're going to hear

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it for the rest of your life. Fair point, go nad. Goren's

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smile fell a little. He looked
like he might hit me when a female

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voice shrieked and made us both jump. Rich Goren be nice. Rich is

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the only reason I'm not turning eighteen. In the tenth grade, Haley Burke

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ran over and gave me a hug. That probably counted as the best sex

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I would have for another decade.
I scuffed my toe against the door and

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tried to divert my eyes from her
tits. Hi, Haley, nice place.

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Is this your cabin? Oh god, no, we found it.

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This place is toat's growdy, and
there's dead animals everywhere. I hadn't noticed

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them before, but sure as shit. The entire place was decorated with mounted

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heads, stuffed varmints, and a
few ducks hung on plaques. A dusty

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black bear sprawled out in front of
a cold fireplace found. Isn't that called

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breaking and entering? Of course,
not spanker. The door was unlocked,

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Goren informed me as he headed to
an adjacent room. His stupidity made my

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eyes roll on their own. That
makes it much less illegal. So anyway,

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I was camping in my flashlight.
Wow, you guys must really be

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desperate to set mel up if you
brought Spanker along, A new voice said,

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I smiled at Haley. And where
there's an asshole, there's usually a

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dick. Just two inches away.
I turned to see the star of the

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football team leaning against a door jam
with Gore and right over his shoulder.

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Yep, I was right, how
are you, Todd? Melanie Hackney shoved

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past them and flashed what might have
been a smile in my direction. She

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wasn't the future centerfold that Haley was, but she was definitely cute, and

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the tight Cleveland Brown's T shirt indicated
she was also freezing and brawless. She

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made her way to the fireplace and
picked up one of the logs next to

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it, but it fell apart in
her hands. Goren, I thought you

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were going to get wood. She
kept her eyes to the floor when she

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spoke, which seemed odd since she
hung out with the two most popular girls

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in the school. I did as
soon as you bent over, he snorted.

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I heard that, retard, his
girlfriend said from the other room.

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Rachel, the deep throat sloat was
gorgeous in a maybe it's Mabeline sort of

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way. Rumor had it that her
maternal line had serviced just about every man

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and many of the women in the
county for four generations. For some reason,

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I never got my turn, though
once her grandma did invite me over

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for lemonade and pie. In retrospect, I don't think she meant pecan.

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That's off subject. However, Todd, why don't you take Goren outside and

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make sure he does it right this
time? Mel's right, it's getting cold

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in here. Hayley waved her hands
for them to leave, like she was

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shoeing flies from her parfay. As
soon as they were gone, Rachel sauntered

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in and kicked the door shut behind
them. She flopped onto the couch in

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a cloud of dust and bent over
hacking. I got a quick peek down

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her blouse, so the walk wasn't
for nothing, Haley tapped my shoulder,

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So rich, what are you doing
out here? Oh right, I was

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camping near by. I went for
a walk and my flashlight ran out of

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batteries. I don't suppose you have
any. I think they're double a's.

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We can look around here, but
everything so old, I doubt it.

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Todd had to bring up gas for
the generator because the stuff in there was

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gross and wouldn't work. This place
is positively ancient. Rachel huffed, I

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might have some batteries. Mel hand
me my purse, would you. Melanie

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looked around and spotted it on the
mantel above the fireplace. She tossed it

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to Rachel, who dug through it
and pulled out a purple vibrator. Everyone

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stared at her for a moment.
What it's not like Gorin's going to do

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me any good. She unscrewed the
bottom and dropped the two batteries into her

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palm. With all the shit the
coach has him taking, his dick looks

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like a shriveled thumb and he's getting
tits will to be enough. I tried

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to remember what words were as the
thought about the pocket rockets. Many adventures

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ran through my head. I'm not
sure. I took the top off the

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light and found two dead batteries.
Looks like that's just what I need,

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but I couldn't. I mean,
you need them for you know, little

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Dickson All I'm gonna stop talking.
Rachel giggled. It was high and milodius,

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definitely the one I heard in the
woods. I can just get hands

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on tonight, I guess. She
nibbled her bottom lip and laughed again as

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I squirmed in place. You did
help me past geometry, so it's the

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least I can do. And history. I reached out for the batteries.

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She let her nails drag against my
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That's a good point. Maybe we
should lock Goren out. She winked,

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and I made an inarticulate sound that
might have been an agreement. If

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you're through giving Richard blueballs? Would
anyone care to tell me what that noise

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is? Melanie asked as she pulled
back a tattered curtain. We all listened,

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and sure enough, there was a
noise. Haley turned off the boombox

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to make it easier for us.
The staccato thumps seemed to be getting closer

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and then further away, faster and
faster, like something circling the cabin.

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An animal called out in the darkness. Was that a horse? Melanie pressed

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her hands against the glass to shield
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That definitely sounded like a horse to
me. I always wanted my own

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horse, Haley clapped excitedly. If
it's wild, I can keep it right.

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And how are you going to catch
a wild horse? Haley? Rachel

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made a good point. I don't
know, deep throat. Maybe you can

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show it your tits. That usually
works. It did on your brother.

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She sucked a finger slowly and made
a pop. Then she pulled past her

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bright red lips. He's married you
whore. I know she was there,

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you uppity bitch. As much as
I really wanted to hear more, I

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called for them to quiet down.
Something was extremely wrong with the situation,

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and I needed blood getting back to
my brain if I was going to figure

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it out. We're in a cabin
that none of us own, we don't

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know who the owner is, and
someone is circling us on a horse.

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None of this sounds like a good
thing, ladies. I put the batteries

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in the flashlight and tested it out. It worked, but was dimmer than

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before. Apparently Rachel used her battery
operated boyfriend more than her real one.

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The hoofbeats stopped, and we stood
in silence for a long moment. Melanie

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leaned against the window harder. Guys, I think we should leave. Something

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is happening out there in the trees. I'm not sure. I can't see.

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Hayley smiled inside because there's nothing to
see. It was just animals doing

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well animal stuff. Probably. Just
then the window exploded inward weakly. Spooky

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will be right back after these quick
messages. Melanie's scream equalled the sound of

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the shattering window. She stumbled back
and fell to the floor. I hurtled

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the object that crashed through and knelt
beside her. Small cuts, adorned and

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otherwise perfect complexion. I tried to
check them for glass. When the other

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girls started screaming. I turned and
noticed the object on the floor, a

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mop of blonde hair with bloody tips
hung over the angular cheekbones. Everything that

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was supposed to be below those cheekbones, specifically Todd's entire body, were missing.

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Haley's scream continued unbroken. Rachel sprang
over the couch and ran for the

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door. It flew open, laying
her out flat as it connected with her

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face. Gore and slammed the door
shut and leaned his bulk against it.

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Sweat rolled like wild rivers between the
pimples. He took deep, heaving breaths

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and looked around the cabin for something, though he didn't bother telling us what

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it was. Gore and turned and
searched the door for a lock, but

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there wasn't one, just two empty
brackets where a board was supposed to go.

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Goren couldn't figure that out and ran
over to me. He grabbed my

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shirt and shook me around. We
have to get the fuck out of here,

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spanker, I slapped him like the
hysterical chick in a generic disaster movie.

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Todd was just outside and that did
not work out well for him.

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I pointed at the disembodied head.
His eyes followed my finger, and then

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he puked across the dusty floorboards.
The orange brown spew spattered my gray all

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stars, and I slapped him again. Pull yourself together. We can't just

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run outside. We need a plan. I have one. Whoever's out there

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will be too busy killing the rest
of you to get me. Goren snatched

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the flashlight out of my hand and
ran for the door. You don't want

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to do that, Goren that flashlight. He ran outside and left the door

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wide open again. Never mind,
have fun, asshole. I slammed the

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door the board to lock. It
was lying on the floor, and it

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took me less than a second to
decide what to do. I dropped the

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board into place and checked on Rachel, who, aside from a small dent

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in her forehead, seemed okay.
Melanie helped me get her to the couch.

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Two of the girls were bleeding,
one of them unconscious, and Haley

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was hyperventilating from all the screaming.
I checked Melanie's cuts and wiped away the

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blood. We really need to get
something over these. I picked up Rachel's

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purse and found a package of tissue. I handed them to Mel, who

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went to the bathroom to clean up
better. Haley, I need you to

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come over here and sit with deep
throat. I mean, Rachel, I

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can't. She pointed in the general
direction of the head without looking right.

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Okay, I got this. I
rolled the bear skin rug up around the

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head and dumped the whole thing out
of the broken window. I saw my

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flashlight beam bouncing through the wilderness.
It flickered, went out, and came

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on briefly again, but then died. Serves you right, go nad.

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I went into the other room,
which barely counted as a kitchen, and

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found the girl's flashlights next to a
cooler of schlitz. I stuck the lights

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into the waist of my jeans and
grabbed three cans. I handed one to

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Haley, hoping it would calm her
down some. Her hands shook so much

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that the malt liquor sprayed against the
ceiling. When she finally got it open,

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she didn't seem to mind as she
slugged it down. Mel came out

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of the bathroom with pieces of tissue
stuck to her face, like she had

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just shaved for the first time.
I snickered at the sight. She scowled,

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and then a little laugh escaped.
You have no room to laugh,

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dick, spanker. She sat on
the arm of the couch and used a

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fistful of tissue to wipe the blood
from Rachel's forehead. He got her pretty

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good. Who's out there you think? She took one of the cans from

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my hand, cracked it open,
and enjoyed a long pull before pressing the

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cold can against Rachel's rising goose egg. Probably the owner of the house.

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It was the best I could come
up with. Decapitating people seems like an

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overreaction to trespassing. Where is the
She dagged slightly and waved a hand at

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the dust free spot the rug had
occupied. I tossed it and over reaction

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or not, this situation is happening. We can go back to my camp

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and then on to my grandparents house. We have lights now, I gestured

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to the ones in my jeans.
You actually want to go out there.

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Gramps taught me a lot about moving
in the woods even at night. We

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can get back to my camp in
fifteen, maybe twenty minutes. I remember

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the way. It's only a half
hour's walk to the house from there.

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Goren was heading the opposite direction,
and I'm sure whoever was out there is

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chasing him. It was kind of
his plan. I'm sure he won't mind

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us using it. We just need
to wake her up first. I guess

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it's better than sitting here. Mel
stroked Rachel's hair and whispered for her to

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wake up. Haley slapped the sleeping
girl across the face hard enough that I

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jumped. She jerked her friend up
by the collar and screamed for her to

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wake up. It seemed to be
working. Rachel's eyes slowly opened and rolled

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around until they were both forward and
semi focused. There, she's awake.

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Let's go, Haley. Let go
of Rachel, and the girl flopped back

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down. Fuck, we can come
back for her. Let's go, rich.

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Haley came over and pulled one of
the lights from my jeans. Now.

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Mel was helping Rachel sit up and
shook her head. She can't run

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like this walking Maybe then she can
catch up. Haley threw open the door

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and walked off the porch. Before
stopping. She stomped a foot and growled

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in frustration. Which way am I
supposed to go? I pointed, and

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then went to help Melanie lift Rachel. She staggered between us, but found

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her balance and walked as best she
could manage. We got outside without incident.

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Haley was ahead of us, making
slow progress since she didn't have a

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clue where to go. We stumbled
along for fifteen minutes or so before Rachel

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came around enough to walk on her
own. By that time, Haley had

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slowed down so she didn't have to
walk alone. I could smell the burning

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pine from my campfire and figured we
were getting close to the rail bridge.

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Something was moving just ahead of us. I whispered for everyone to turn off

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their lights and stalked forward on my
own. A sleek mountain of muscles stood

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next to the tracks. Its hellish
breath steamed in the cool air. The

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riderless stallion paced back and forth,
occasionally snorting at the rails, and obsidian

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saddle sat on its back over an
onyx blanket, layers of darkness melting and

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swirling together to create a living shadow
in the magnesium beams of the moon.

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Things were starting to make sense,
but not in a sane sort of way.

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I crept back to the girls.
We need to run really fast and

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get over the railroad tracks. I
think will be okay after that. There's

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a really really big horse up there, though, and no, you don't

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want to keep it Hailey. She
opened her mouth to speak, but the

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only thing that came out was the
metal spike that punched through the back of

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her head in a spray of blood. She collapsed as the weapon jerked free,

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grating against her even white teeth.
The spiked and dripped her life on

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the leaf litter, while the axe
head on the other side gleamed brightly.

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The owner oozed out of the shadows
and wiped the spike on his leather sleeve.

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My eyes focused on the weapon,
crawled up his black sleeve to his

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shoulder, and then to his empty
space. I wasn't sure how to feel

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about being right. I shouldn't have
been right, because it shouldn't have been

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possible, But the stories my grandma
told me echoed in the back of my

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mind as soon as I saw the
horse. Unfortunately, none of those stories

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told me what to do about a
doulaean, so I improvised run. I

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screamed before kicking him in the balls. Apparently his head was the only thing

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he was missing, because he doubled
over silently from the blow and collapsed to

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his knees. I sprinted to catch
up with Mel and Rachel. Melanie made

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it over the tracks, but the
stallion bit down on Rachel's hair and slung

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her to the ground. I stopped
next to Mel and we watched as the

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duelahan came closer. I held on
to Mel's arm and shook my head when

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she tried to run again. I
had to see what happened. The creature

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got to the tracks and stopped.
I was right again. He couldn't cross

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the iron. He stretched out his
axe, and golden sparks crackled as it

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hit the air above the rail.
He turned and scooped Rachel up on his

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shoulder before pushing her over the horse's
haunches. As he slid into the saddle,

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I saw the head hanging from his
belt. His head it was molted,

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and the stump of his neck was
gangrenous, but the eyes were bright

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as they stared at me. A
wicked smile stretched across his face as he

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rode away with his prize. Melanie
and I made it back to the tent

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in silence. We sat next to
the fire with a death grip on each

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other. She cried quietly. I
tapped my toe nervously. Far away,

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we heard the boastful neighing of that
damn horse. Then I remembered something.

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I sprang up from the ground and
dived into the tent for my backpack.

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Gramp's hadn't sent me a gun,
which would have been nice, but Grandma's

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horse shoe was a close second.
That's the only damned time that sentence will

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ever make sense. I told Melanie
to wait in the tent, and I

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ran into the abyss to rescue the
town tramp. That seems like better motivation

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than a princess, so I'm not
sure why more fairy tales didn't go that

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way. It definitely worked for me. I found my way back to the

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cabin quickly. The horse was waiting
for me, only it was hooked to

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a carriage. Now the wheel spokes
were made of bones, and the candles

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blazed the mouths of skulls mounted around
the top of the enclosure. The devil

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horse gnawed on a chubby arm with
the ragged remains of a Sohio shirt.

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Sleeve draped over it. Of course, the horse is a goddamn carnivore.

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Why wouldn't it be makes all the
sense in the world. At least it'll

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be full after eating Goren. Probably
no room left for me. I don't

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know why, but I found that
comforting at the time. Being brutally murdered

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by the headless horseman I could deal
with, But being unceremoniously discarded as road

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apples seemed a bit too much.
Rachel called for me from the window,

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Help me, dick, fuck my
life. The Dulahan walked around the carriage

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with axe clutched in his fist.
I stared at him and tightened the grip

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of my horse shoe, realizing I
was about to die a virgin, but

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damn it, I was going to
die Trying to change that. I charged

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forward, and the demon unfurled a
whip from his belt. It the air

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in front of me. As it
flashed by, I realized it was made

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from some poor bastard spine. I
dropped onto my ass as it cracked again.

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The bone weapon slashed the ground beside
me, and I rolled to my

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feet. I held the horse shoe
up in an attempt to drive him away.

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It didn't work. He swung the
whip. I ducked, and then

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the axe whizzed by my face.
It stuck into the carriage door, spewing

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black splinters all over me. I
ran around him while he struggled to get

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free. The bodiless head snarled at
me. I threw the horse shoe as

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hard as I could. The rotting
face sank in as the iron shoe shattered,

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The bones, puss, and brain
matter sprayed out in a steaming splatter

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against my shoes. That's a ringer. The Dulahan flailed about a thick oily

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smoke oozed from his clothes. The
sulfurous fog stung my eyes, and I

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missed most of the action from then
on out, but I could still hear

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it. For a creature with no
vocal cords, he sure could scream.

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By the time I cleared my eyes, all that was left was a heap

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of cracked leather clothing lying in a
gooey puddle. Rachel and I staggered back

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to my campsite. The horse,
now masterless, didn't bother to pursue us.

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We looked for it, but it
never showed. It didn't even seem

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to care that its owner melted.
Maybe it was just cursed dragging along for

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the ride, because a headless horseman
kind of needs a horse. We got

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back to my camp and Rachel curled
up next to the fire while I went

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into the tent to check on mel. I opened the tent and stared wide

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eyed. The fat little thing pulled
its bloody head out of her open abdomen.

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The bulbous nose wiggled above a pointed
smile. It waved at me with

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twisted, broken fingers like they were
smashed under a rock. I zipped the

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tent back up, grabbed Rachel's arm, and ran straight to my room above

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Gramp's garage. We dated for the
remaining two weeks I was in Ohio.

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We knew not to tell anyone about
what happened at the cabin. As far

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as I know, none of the
bodies were ever found. Things eventually leveled

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out for Rachel and me. She
ended up writing books about horny monsters,

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some of which were made into a
horrible series of movies about glittery warlocks.

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I changed my name and became a
porn star. Okay, okay, I

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sell insurance, but I did change
that stupid fucking name. Sometimes I wake

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up at night and swear I hear
a carriage coming down the road. Maybe

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I do. I had been to
the Kolate. That's what the bridge had

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said. It's the thin place between
our world and there. I tell my

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kids the stories my grandmother told me. Only I remember to include the parts

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about how to kill the monsters.
After all, I know they're real.

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It was a hell of a night
and it changed me forever. But out

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of everything I saw and learned that
night, one lesson will never escape me.

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Never ever forget to feed the Puka. Now, that is quite the

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Duelahan story, and believe it or
not, it's actually the second Dulahan story

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we've ever had on the show.
Morgan Moore had a phenomenal telling of the

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Dulahan that she did last year,
which I highly recommend you check out by

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looking in our back catalog. It's
a good one. I know you'll enjoy

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it. It's episode one hundred and
fifty seven. But big thank you to

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David O'Hanlon, the very talented writer
of this story and also the writer of

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The Babysitter Massacre books, which you
can find on Amazon dot com and hey,

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they're published by me, and the
audiobooks are even narrated by me.

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Go figure. I hope everybody's having
a really good week. I got a

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new washing machine and it was very
frustrating, but all in all, can't

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complain about life. I hope you're
all doing just phenomenally and I hope you're

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ready for a whole lot of Spooky
because now we're over the hump, halfway

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to Halloween baby, and oh boy, is it going to be sweet.

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So now I think I need to
get out of here because I'm prepping our

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big two hundredth episode and believe me, it's going to be awesome. But

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first I want to say a big
thank you to our Patreon podcast boosters,

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folks who pay just a little bit
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Brent McCullough, Gino Lyon, Steve
King, Karen, We met Jack Kerr

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and Craig Cohen. And remember,
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So it's a nice way to support the

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show, and if you want to
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any tier at fifteen dollars or hire. It really does help us keep the

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show going and going and going.
But now, my friends, I'm going

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to get out of here and get
back to working on the big two hundredth

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episode. So for our executive producer
Rob Fields, our composer Ray Maddis,

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and my producing partner Dan Wilder,
we will talk at you very very soon

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and make sure you keep your horseshoe
ready. Thank you for this name.

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Make sure to find your way back
next week. But for now you are

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safe, trust me.