Ep.251 – Catching a Buzz - These Bugs are as Deadly as they are HUNGRY!

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There's an old say good things come
in small packages, but maybe that goes

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the other extreme as well. What
if pure, unmitigated violent terror could be

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as small, could be as ineffectual, as ignorable as a modern housefly until

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it's too late. What's that you
want to be scared to? Come with

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me. You will experience tales over
opera, ghosts and death. He is

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not recommended for a week at heart
heart listen as in the dark. It's

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more fun at that way way.
This is Weekly Speaking. Hello, my

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spookies. It's Wednesday, and you
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I'm your host and narrator, Enrique Kuto,

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and tonight's story is what everybody is
buzzing about. Eh. I came

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up with that one all by myself. This story's by our good buddy and

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regular collaborator, David O'Hanlon, and
it's all about killer flies. But before

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my friends, I want to find out

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what all the buzz is about,
and I think you do too, So

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get yourself comfortable and make sure if
you're going to bite into an apple that

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there's nothing surprising in there, because
you will want minimal distractions, because let's

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be real distractions to your podcast listening, maggot, way harder to enjoy yourself.

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Right after these quick words Catching a
Buzz by David o'hanley, this sucks,

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nine year old Grover Wright said,
dumping out his tricker treating bag on

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the foot of his bed. Hall
lloween should be a whole month. You

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can't get enough candy in just a
few hours. Look at this. Mine's

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not any better, Will told him. His eleven year old brother emptied his

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own bag onto the pile. It
was only the ninth of November and they

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were down to eleven rolls of Smarties, three pumpkin shaped chocolate covered marshmallows,

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entirely too many peanut butter kisses,
eighteen jawbreakers, two chocolate crosses with Bible

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versus stapled to the rappers, seven
fun sized Mister goodbars, a tube of

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pumpkin spice chapstick, and a dozen
coffin shaped boxes of candy sticks. There

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was no way they'd be able to
stretch their loot until the Christmas candy hall

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Will tore open one of the marshmallow
treats and stuffed it into his mouth.

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I think this is from last year, he mumbled as he chewed. I'm

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not eating the stupid orange and black
things. No one even knows what they

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are. Grover said, what are
we going to do? Bucks? Will

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held up a hand and swallowed the
gooey candy with a loud gulp. Bucks

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might have more clearance candy. I
still have ten dollars from helping mister Stax

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take down his decorations. Bucks is
way on the other side of town,

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Grover said, even Clarissa would notice
us being gone that long. Clarissa Hart

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was the worst babysitter and Cohler.
Of course, not many people wanted the

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job after the horrible murders a few
years prior. They never found the killer's

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body. After all, most sitters
were only available during daylight hours in fear

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the pig faced man would get them
too. The rights had to take what

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they could get, and in the
months surrounding the anniversary of the babysitter massacre,

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they could get Clarissa. Will did
the mental math. If he hustled,

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he could make it to the store
in twenty minutes, tend to get

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the candy, then twenty to make
it back. There was a small possibility.

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Grover could manage to avoid Clarissa entirely
for an hour. Of course,

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if she found out, Will side
there's nothing more conniving, vengeful, and

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malicious than a high school senior.
Their parents wouldn't be home for three more

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days. Clarissa would confiscate the goodies
and have them catering to where every need

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until she was relieved of duty.
What's up, losers, Clarissa said from

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the doorway. The babysitter strolled into
the room without an answer or invitation.

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She snatched up a handful of the
candy and shook it around like dice before

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dropping it. Definitely, Losers,
this is a terrible stash, she said.

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You can't eat this for dinner.
What is for dinner? Grover asked,

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I'm the babysitter, not the cook. Clarissa shrugged. There's lean cuisine

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in the freezer. Pick one.
Those are moms. Will informed her.

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Yeah, well, apparently she's not
eating them. Clarissa picked up one of

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the rolls of Smarties and smiled mischievously. Or you could have pizza, you'd

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get us pizza. Will shifted uncomfortably. What's the catch? Haven't you been

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on TikTok, and like the last
week, Clarissa sneered, come with me.

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The babysitter left the room with the
candies. Grover and Will exchanged concerned

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looks, then followed her downstairs.
There are few things in the world that

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aren't worth doing for pizza. Clarissa
had already unrolled the candies and laid out

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several on the dining table. The
boys gathered around while she ran for her

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clutch. She returned with two dollar
bills, her vape, and her phone.

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Noticing their expressions, Clarissa explained it
all. There's a new challenge going

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around. She said. You crush
up the Smarties and make two lines of

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powder, and then see who can
snort theirs the fastest. Pretty simple.

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That sounds dangerous, Will said,
and stupid, which means you two are

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totally qualified to do it for my
followers. Clarissa responded, it could go

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viral and you could be popular for
a change. Plus I'll get you pizza.

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Does it hurt? Grover asked,
not if you do it right.

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Clarissa used her vape to crush the
sweet tablets. You just have to smash

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up all the little pieces. My
mother and her boyfriend do it with her

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xanax literally every night. A minute
later, two sugary rails laid across the

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tabletop, and the brothers each held
a rolled up dollar. Clarissa opened her

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camera to record them, but neither
moved toward their starting line. This is

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like drugs, Grover said. Well, it's called a sugar high, isn't

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it. Clarissa waived for them to
start. Drugs are bad, Grover told

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her, I don't want to do
this. I'll get lava cakes with the

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pizza, Clarissa offered, and cheesybread. Will counteroffered, Jesus, I'm offering

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you TikTok stardom. Here. She
pointed at the candy cocaine. That could

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be the start of your influencer careers
right there, at least us. How

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to do it first, Will said, moving his hand to his back pocket.

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Oh my god. Fine. Clarissa
snatched the dollar from him and leaned

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over the table. You just stick
it up your nose, then put it

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to the line, cover the other
nostril and inhale. Watch closely, because

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I'm not doing it twice. Oh, we're watching. Will sneakily pulled his

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phone out and swiped for the camera. Go ahead and show us how it's

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done. Clarissa snorted the line noisily. She started coughing, then squeezed her

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nose and shook her head. Her
eyes watered as she turned around. It's

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not that bad, she lied,
Will and Grover burst with laughter. She

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used her sweater to clear her vision. Her face contorted into a vicious scowl

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when she saw the phone pointed at
her. Delete that. She demanded nothing

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too delete. Will told her we're
live. You're right, it's getting a

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lot of reacts. Did you know
your leggings are see through you? You

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little shit? Turn it off.
Clarissa rubbed her sore nose. I mean

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it, Will write, turn that
phone. Why are you looking at me

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like that? Will let the phone
drop and pointed at Clarissa, you're bleeding.

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Clarissa pulled her hand away from her
face and saw the crimson smear.

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She looked down at the drops staining
her top and ran out of the room,

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stripping the cashmere garment off as she
did so. Does this mean we're

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not getting pizza? Grover shouted after
her. The slamming of the bathroom door

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told him they weren't. The smoke
detectors screeching brought Clarissa out to investigate.

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She hadn't smelt the smoke with the
cotton balls shoved up into her hemorrhaging nostrils,

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She fanned the air on the way
to the kitchen, where Will was

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climbing onto the breakfast nook to deactivate
the alarm. Black smoke billowed from the

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oven. Clarissa threw open the back
door and then pulled up the window over

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the sink. What the fuck are
you two doing? She dragged Grover away

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from the stove. Go open more
windows. I felt bad, Will admitted,

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after finally hitting the button to silence
the alarm. You know, because

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you got blood on your sweater and
everyone saw the video, so you thought

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Arson would make up for it.
Clarissa found the oven mits and removed the

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pan from inside. The plastic handle
had been reduced to long melted strings that

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stretched from the pan to the glowing
orange heating coil. The contents were an

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unidentifiable blackened mass that smelled something like
chocolate, and an electrical fire. The

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sitter made her way to the back
door and tossed the entire thing into the

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yard. We were trying to make
a chocolate cake. For you will explained

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that is was a skillet. You
can't stick that in the oven. The

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instructions said to use a round pan. You two are cleaning the melted plastic

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out of the stove tomorrow, Clarissa
snapped, her face softened. It was

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sweet, though completely idiotic, but
sweet. We'll have to leave the windows

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up so the house can air out
before your folks get home. What about

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flies, Grover said, fanning one
away as he returned to the kitchen.

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Flies are harmless. Clarissa plucked a
piece of bloody cotton from her nose.

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Uugh, it's just holding in the
smoke smell. Clarissa, moved by the

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gesture and her own hunger, decided
to order a pizza for them. They

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ate on the patio while the house
continued to air out. She was starting

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to think the kids, despite being
losers like all kids are, weren't so

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bad. When she finally sent them
to bed after closing and locking all the

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doors and windows, she was pretty
much done for the night herself. The

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smoke had aggravated the abrasions in her
nose, making it sore again, but

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the bleeding seemed to have stopped.
Clarissa felt stupid. Falling for her own

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gag, she dug a pair of
hydros from her purse that she'd lifted from

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her mom's stash. Taylenol probably would
have sufficed, but the painkillers would make

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sure she could sleep. Despite the
lingering stench of burnt plastic. The pills

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worked perfectly. She slept through the
odor and through the large, strangely colored

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fly that landed on her lip.
Clarissa dabbed her nose with folded toilet paper.

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The stupid Internet challenge was drawing a
lot of flak. Apparently numerous kids

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trying it had experienced in infections from
micro abrasions caused by the crumbled Smarties.

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She didn't need to further embarrass herself
by getting a staff infection in her nose.

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The mild ache of the scratches had
grown more uncomfortable throughout the school day,

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but the bleeding hadn't started until the
walk to the write home. She'd

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ran in the gas and grub and
straight for the bathroom when she felt the

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tiny rivlet tickling her lip. Once
she was sure it had finished, she

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double checked her top for stains.
Content that she looked presentable enough, she

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went back out into the gas station
and immediately groaned with disgust. Ross Garvey

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saw her too. They'd scheduled their
third date before the emergency call that pulled

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the rights away. Clarissa had been
relieved. Ross might have been a sexy

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football star, but he was also
a brain dead degenerate. Worse yet,

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he'd accepted a scholarship to Texas A
and m Clarissa Hart dating an aggie talk

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about social suicide. She waved politely
and went to the cooler to get a

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drink. Ross came up behind her. His hand found her hip without invitation.

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Hey, Clarissa, you haven't text
back, he said, I've been

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working. Clarissa turned. It's a
week long gig. I'll give you a

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call when it's done, or I
could just come by. Ross suggested we

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can make that our date a little
Netflix and a lot of chill quarterbacks score.

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Clarissa said, pushing past him.
You're just a lineman, but you're

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the one doing all the blocking.
Ross groaned, I told you I'm working.

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Clarissa grabbed a couple of bags of
chips and headed for the checkout.

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I'm already late enough. Clarissa made
her way to the checkout The crack of

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the fly swatter on the chipped counter
made her jump. Huby Gilbert shook his

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head at the phlegm colored spot.
The next person in line gagged at the

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site. Huby didn't bother wiping up
the mess as he rang up the customer's

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items. Damn strange little critters,
the attendant said, gesturing toward the prismatic

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bits of exoskeleton smashed into the carnage. Being downwind of the dump, they're

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all over my place, I can
imagine, the customer muttered. He eyed

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the pulped insect. Gotta be this
back and forth weather. Gotta be something

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I reckon, Hube replied. Clarissa
hadn't thought about it, but it did

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seem there were more flies than usual. The house had been full of them

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when she awoke. Maybe it was
the weather. Summer kept trying to fight

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its way back from its seasonal grave. Despite being the beginning of November,

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the River Valley had been sitting pleasantly
in the seventies for a week. A

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cold snap was coming, but not
before hitting near record highs that afternoon.

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The train of thought was derailed by
Ross, turning her forcibly, we're third

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and ten here, Babe, Ros
said, it's time to take it to

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the end zone. Not gonna happen, Sure it will. Ross leaned in

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and kissed her. She gave him
an ineffectual shove, but he recoiled nonetheless.

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Ross slapped a hand to his mouth
in response to the sting in his

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lip. When he removed the appendage, Clarissa saw the blood. She dropped

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the chips and soda to cover her
nose and ran out of the station before

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anyone could see she was bleeding again. Clarissa made it halfway down the block

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before she took a tentative glance at
her hands, only there was no blood

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on them this time. She slowed
to a brisk walk and dabbed her lip

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nothing. When Clarissa arrived at the
right home, the boys had set the

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table. Knowing they had some lead
time on their sitter, they ran to

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the Buck's Wild discount outlet for a
huge bag of mixed Carson Bars and Jack

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O'Lantern shaped brownies that had been on
clearance, all of which were arranged on

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plates in front of the chairs,
with a piping hot lean cuisine in the

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middle of each and an overflowing popcorn
bucket. As the centerpiece. Grover was

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pouring juice in and around the glasses
when Clarissa walked in. We wanted to

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make dinner, Will said, we
picked things we couldn't burn down the house

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with good call. Clarissa put her
stuff down and joined them at the table.

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I want the lasagna deal. Grover
swapped the plates so that he got

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the spaghetti and quickly spat on it. Which one do you want? Will?

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His brother glared at him. He
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he definitely wasn't going for the spit
getty. They all took their seats and

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started eating. Clarissa sniffed a few
times. She could hardly smell any of

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the food, leaving her taste spuds
grossly disappointed by the first bite. Sorry,

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she mumbled, then sputtered her lips
and repeated it louder. I'm sorry.

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I shouldn't have tried to get y'all
to do a dumbass challenge. A

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lot of kids are getting hurt.
The laugh wouldn't have been worth it if

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that had happened. Some of the
kids in my class tried it. Will

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shrugged. Guess they got nosebleeds too, Since they weren't in class. Told

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you drugs are bad. Grover said, you were right, Clarissa assured him.

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Clarissa looked down at her lasagna and
prodded the cheese in the stringy fold.

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Something wriggled out of sight. She
leaned her face in for a closer

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look. A tiny white grub,
a little larger than a grain of rice,

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plopped into the sauce. It twitched
and squirmed in the hot fluid.

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She saw the first one tunneling between
the noodles. Grover screamed, falling backwards

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out of his chair. Will jumped
upright, knocking his own seat over.

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Clarissa looked at both of them.
Their faces were stark and quivering with panic.

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She looked at the lasagna once more, and another maggot dripped into the

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low calorie meal. Her nose began
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She brought a hand up to it. Pinpricks stung her fingers, and

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she whipped her hand away. The
hooked fangs of the maggots were buried deep

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into the pads of her fingertips.
The little worms danced as they chewed the

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flesh. Clarissa drew in a breath
to scream, but choked. She stumbled

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away from the table in a hacking
fit that dislodged a number of the feisty

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grubs on the laminate flooring. Her
nose gushed blood. Maggots clung to her

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nostrils, fighting eviction from their moist, dark home. Clarissa's skin writhed a

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tear duck ruptured, trickling blood down
her cheek. The maggots poked their heads

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out inquisitively, and then ducked back
inside the girl's face. Clarissa collapsed to

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the floor, unconscious. Are you
afraid? Good? Weekly spooky, We'll

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be right back. Ross banged his
head to the music and shut the water

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off. He roughly toweled his hair
before stepping out of the shower, leaving

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a puddle on the tile. Mark
Garvey was an excellent provider for his family,

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but his paternal ability stretched no further
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Building the apartment over the garage for
Ross had allowed him to say I love

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you, son without having to actually
spend any time with his offspring. Ross

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didn't give a damn. A father
is just a low bar to surpass on

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your way to manhood as far as
he was concerned, he had. Ross

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saw the apartment as his dad's way
of acknowledging his son's superiority. Ross used

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the towel to clear steam from the
mirror. If Clarissa wanted to be an

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uptight cock teas, that was fine
by him. Two fives was a ten,

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and Clarissa's best friends Trina and Miley
were certainly fives. Neither of them

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was going to get a first stringer
on their own, so when he made

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the offer, they jumped at it. A threesome with ugly chicks was still

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a threesome. Ross dried himself off
with half assed effort, tossing the towel

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into the hamper with the rest of
the week's laundry. If his mom was

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going to wash it, she could
at least come and get it instead of

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waiting for him to bring it to
the laundry room. He ignored the impending

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inconvenience of lugging the clothes down the
stairs that he walked down every day,

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and focused on getting ready for his
date fuck me. He leaned close to

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the mirror to examine the boil on
his lip. It looked like a pimple,

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at first, but then he saw
the inflamed red edges. Ross banged

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a fist on the counter. He
grabbed his phone. Hey, Siri,

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what does herpes look like? He
knew raw dogging Jackie Banks had been a

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bad idea, but he thought buying
the plan B would be the last he

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heard of it. Obviously not,
he realized. As he prodded the sore,

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Siri gave him a list of links
for more information. Reading was never

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his strong suit, so he decided
on a more realistic approach. He'd steal

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some concealer from his mom's makeup kit
and forget about it. He poked at

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it once more, and it poked
back. Ross flinched. He put his

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fingers on his lip and felt the
wound pulsing against the tips. He brought

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his face as close to the mirror
as he could. In the center of

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the boil was a white head.
Shit, this is going to suck.

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He prepared himself to try and pop
it. The head bulged but didn't rupture.

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Blood spurted in tiny drops against the
glass. Ross smashed harder. The

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pain grew more intense. The boil
finally broke open. The maggot dangled from

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the edge. Squirming wildly, Ross
stumbled away, shrieking. His feet slipped

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in the puddle beneath him, and
then flew into the air. His head

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cracked open on the edge of the
tub, oozing its contents onto the tile.

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The maggots wiggled from the puff filled
wound and made for the green pastures

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of his nostril. Trina and Miley
would be pissed, but not surprised that

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Ross stood them up. His father
wouldn't bother coming by, neither would his

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friends. No one would know he
was missing until his came to collect the

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laundry on Monday. By then,
the maggot would be no more. The

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aerosol can sputtered, with the last
of its contents coming out in a pathetic

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spittle. Hub went to trash the
depleted bug spray. It was the second

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can he'd used in three days.
The house flies zigged and zagged through his

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kitchen. One bounced off his forehead, no doubt intoxicated by the discount insecticide.

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He swung the can like a billy
club, knocking one of the pests

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from the air. It's going all
the way for the fences, Hub chuckled

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about the only way this shit is
killing anything. Hub stepped on the pedal

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and the trash can lid flipped up. A buzzing, black cloud of insects

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swarmed from the darkened sanctuary of rot
and filth. Qub backpedaled, swinging the

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can wildly, but still batting a
few. As the kitchen filled with flies,

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he watched a pair of the big, brightly colored ones darting in and

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out of the pestilent cloud. Huby
made it from the kitchen and slammed the

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door. He grabbed the quilt from
the back of the sofa and stuffed it

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into the crack at the floor.
To keep the bastards inside, Lord have

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mercy, he muttered. The drone
of the flies could be heard through the

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farmhouse's thick wood door. Huby stared
down at the quilt and felt a tinge

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of guilt. His late wife,
Clara had made it herself. She'd been

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so proud that he hadn't bothered telling
her it was the ugliest damn thing he'd

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ever seen. Clara would have kept
him in line. He should have taken

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the trash out two days before.
There were several dirty plates sitting in the

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sink. He'd practically set the table
for the damitable pests. Huby started for

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the front door. He kept a
pump sprayer of good poison in his garage.

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It was meant for outdoor use,
but Huby didn't figure it would matter

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at his age. Huby's hand stopped
short of the knob. The buzzing wasn't

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as loud as that of the infested
kitchen, but it was loud. Nonetheless.

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He eased the door open and found
them clinging to the screen beyond,

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in such numbers that it obscured his
view of the pasture. Beyond. A

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cool breeze carried the moist, grotesque
stench of the dump. He'd inherited his

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childhood home and the expanse of land
when his parents passed away. That had

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been a bad time for him.
He'd been nipples deep in debt, so

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crippling that he'd sold the adjacent parcel
to the county without asking any questions.

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Perhaps if he had and waited out
other offers, he wouldn't live next to

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the new dump. Hube squinted through
the swarm, and in the dying light

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of day, he could have sworn
someone was walking through the pasture. Normally,

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he'd run them off, but he
wasn't about to risk letting more flies

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in. He shut the front door
with a sigh. What was one more

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trespasser? He thought the cold front
was supposed to roll in over the next

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two days, so worst case scenario, he'd have his kitchen back in forty

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eight hours. He wasn't much of
a cook anyhow. Hughbe cast a final

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glance at the quilt and headed for
bed. He made it to the top

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of the stairs and opened the bedroom
door. Flies buzzed around the plastic tray

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of microwave meal he'd had before work
and carelessly left on the bedside table.

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He followed one of the pretty ones
as it flied on to the other nightstand,

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Clara's night stand, and crawled across
the tattered bible she kept there.

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Hube's stomach soured every night they each
read a chapter aloud for the forty three

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years they'd been married. He watched
the shimmering body convulse as the fly vomited

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on the embossed title. Hub backed
out of the room and shut the door,

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Thinking of a name he'd read on
those worn pages, and of a

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strange man walking across his property.
He sauntered to the bathroom and stuffed towels

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along the bottom of the door before
stepping over the steep side of the cast

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iron tub. He sank to the
bottom for a long, uncomfortable night as

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he pulled a towel over himself for
a blanket. Hubie would take the bathroom,

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the rest of the house, and
maybe the entire town now belonged to

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them. Belonged to Beelzebub, the
Lord of the flies. Clarissa sat in

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the wheelchair, probing the gauze with
her fingertips. There was no definition beneath,

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not like there should have been.
A shadow passed overhead, allowing her

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to see her reflection in the hospital
window. The rest of the eggs had

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hatched on the ride to the emergency
room. Any infection she'd got and from

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the candy snorting challenge had been disposed
of in short order by the hundreds of

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starving larvae birthing in her sinus cavities. However, they'd taken plenty of good

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tissue along with it. She looked
at her reflection, wondering how much of

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her nose was still there. It
didn't feel like any beneath the thick dressing.

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She'd always had a small nose,
a cute little button that everyone envied

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her for, especially her mother.
It was going to be much much smaller

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now. She moved her touch to
the eye patch. Next, the doctors

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saved the organ itself, since the
maggots had been too preoccupied eating her eyelid.

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She looked down at the emergency entrance
as another ambulance pulled up. The

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plummeting temperature was forcing the flies away, back to wherever flies went when it

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became too cold. She was afraid
some would find their ways into homes,

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but the nurse told her not to
worry worry about it. There was a

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new challenge, and all the kids
were busy hurting themselves that way. She

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wondered if pictures of her maggot riddled
face would go viral as quickly. Maybe

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if enough people saw that, they'd
think twice before listening to some kid on

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the internet. The paramedics unloaded a
gurney from the back of the ambulance.

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Clarissa couldn't tell much about the kid, except that she had a vacuum hose

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stuck to her lips. She glanced
at her reflection once more. I hope

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it turns out better for you.
Than it did for me, kid,

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she whispered. The cloud passed by
and her reflection vanished. She watched the

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paramedics wheel the girl inside and noticed
the darkened figure standing on the other side

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of the ambulance. She hadn't seen
him approach. He stood there, watching

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the girl and then looking up looking
at Clarissa. She squinted her uncovered eye,

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trying to make out his face,
but couldn't. A tap on the

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glass drew her attention to the corner
of the window. One of the big

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shiny flies butted against the glass.
Its mouth parts dragged the surface, leaving

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a phosphorescent slime trail as it looked
for a way inside. The cold fall

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breeze battered its membranous wings until it
turned into a gust and tore one off

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entirely. Hope you fucking die slow, she muttered. She cast one last

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look to the man in black,
but he gone exactly as he came.

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She rolled her chair backwards and turned
it to leave the room. Her phone

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sat on the table beside her with
a dead battery. She was done with

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phones. She'd spent over half her
life with one in front of her face,

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and now she had half a face
for the rest of her life because

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of it. Yes, she was
done with phones and candy. Kara Garvey

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knocked on the apartment door again,
but her son didn't answer, typical.

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She worked the spare key into the
lock and stepped inside to discover Ross had

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become an even bigger slob over the
weekend. The blankets hung off his unfolded

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futon and missed A sea of dorido
crumbs. Empty monster cans occupied almost every

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surface, along with protein shaker cups
and their curdled contents. His god awful

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music blasted from the bathroom, where
the worst of all the conflicting odors seemed

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to emanate from. Kara huffed.
Just because you don't pay the electric bill

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doesn't mean it's free, she complained. On her way to turn off the

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stereo. She pushed open the door
and screamed. The startled insects buzzed away

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from the buffet, leaving their larval
offspring to to bride the wounds. Bits

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of meat clung to bare bones,
pupas incubated the chrotic organs. Kara stumbled

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away, but the swarm engulfed her. She swatted and batted at them wildly.

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She made it to the door and
tumbled down the stairs along the side

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of the garage. Most of the
insects retreated back into the apartment, but

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she watched a shiny one, like
a flying oil slick, dart away in

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search of a new den. Kara
rolled over, crying out as broken bones

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grated across themselves. A man stood
at the end of the driveway. Kara

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stretched a hand out for him.
Help me, she whimpered. He stood

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there, unmoving. He seemed out
of focus and didn't say a word.

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Kara blinked away tears. His form
remained distorted. Please help me, she

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said louder. The wail of a
siren drew her attention to the ambulance streaking

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down Derby Street. They'd heard a
lot of those over the last week.

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An outbreak of my asses had overcome
the town's livestock, but several pets and

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a few people had been fly struck
as well. The best theory anyone could

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come up with was that the new
dump harbored a hybrid species of botfly.

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Kara looked back to the man in
black as the ambulance screamed past them.

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His body exploded into a swirling column
of black flies, millions of them,

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huddled together for warmth, rose up
in a great black cloud and blotted out

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the light as they passed over her
in search of food. It wouldn't take

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them long. In a town like
Kohler, there were plenty of dead things.

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I hope that story gave you something
nice to chew on, and ideally

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it's not someone else's face. Big
thank you to our good buddy David O'Hanlon,

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And I want to mention this story
is a little bit of a sequel

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to his first book he wrote with
Me, Babysitter Massacre Daddy's Little Killer,

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available now on Amazon Audible, and
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type it into the search bar,
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just for your listening pleasure. I
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doing pretty good over here at Weekly
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going to do another thirty one days
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the weekly and as we cross over
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slowing down. So make sure you
stick around because next Monday we have another

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episode of Terrifying and True, and
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spooky right here. So for myself, for my composer Ray Mattis, for

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my executive producers Rob Fields and Mark
Shields, and my producer Dan Wilder.

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Oh my goodness. If you hear
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week. Talk at you then,
thank you for listening. Make sure to

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find your way back next week.
But for now you are safe. Trust me,