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On Canadian Thanksgiving. What starts as a casual hook up
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quickly becomes a deadly game of survival when a young
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man finds himself in a remote cabin in the Canadian wilderness.
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Will he survive or will he discover a type of
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terror he'd never dreamed of. There's a hill in the air.
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Must befall Join me for a Tale of fallowe.
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You will experience tales oh ghosts sand. It is not
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recommended for the weak at heart. Join me for a
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Tale of Fallowey is weekly Spooky?
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Hello, my Spookyes, it may not be Wednesday, but it
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is the spooky season and we have so many extra
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scares just for you. I'm your host and narrator, Enrique Kuto,
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and I hope today finds you well. As we head
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knee deep into spooky season, Tonight's story takes a little
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bit of a different spin on the season by dabbling
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in Canadian Thanksgiving, which of course is in October. And
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it's by our good buddy and Canadian Mike Eshkewey. It's
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a great story about love and loss and well some
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very big surprises. But before we get to that, I
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want to say thank you so much for listening to
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four years of goodies from the past. But now, my friends,
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I think it's about time we head up to the
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Great White North and find out what scares await us,
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So get yourself comfortable and put on some aftershave. We
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have a date with Destiny right after this stalk by
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Mike Eskewey. I'm bored, lonely, and horny. This is not
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exactly a great combination for an exciting reading week. The
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exceptional and brilliant life of me Joshua Fox or Foxy
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to most of my friends. I wish the nickname suggested
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more success with the ladies. But well, let's say it's
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been a long dry summer, and fuck if I'm not thirsty.
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Canadian Thanksgiving, the less cool cousin of American Thanksgiving, happens
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in October. But hey, it's reading week, so it kind
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of works out. I'm coming home to my old stomping
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grounds from being away in the big city of Toronto.
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It'll be a week of getting together with some friends,
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playing some dungeons and dragons, and maybe putting on the
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skates for a few games of Beer League hockey with
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the boys. Maybe I was expecting college to be like
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in the movies, and ladies would be throwing themselves at me.
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I am somehow getting the idea that the sexy comedies
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of the eighties might have lied to me. There was
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a distinct lack of pante raids, and it was more
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study your ass off and get your homework done than
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endless fun. I'm lucky that I got my college education
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paid for courtesy of the Ontario government and a summer
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of manning a hot dog cart at the Blue Jays games.
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The drive home up Highway six was as always long, boring,
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and well, if you've never seen a cow, then hold
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onto your butts, because you are in for a treat.
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I parked my ass at my parents' house and Owen
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Sound and hoped that this week doesn't suck. My mom
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and dad have taken off to somewhere warm, sunny and
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probably filled with conservative nut jobs like Florida. Come to
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think of it, maybe Owen Sound and Florida have a
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lot in common, just with less alligators on meth. Then again,
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I laughed at my own stupid thoughts and continued driving. Fortunately,
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Foxy wasn't totally without a clue or a plan for
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the week ahead. In some ways, there is this cool
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thing called the Internet. Heard of it? Of course? You
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have all the debauchery and raunchy shit you can imagine,
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and all available at the click of a mouse kind
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of figured the boys might blow me off for the
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week with work, girlfriends, and kids, so I had to
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come up with a plan. B. What's plan B, you
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ask Internet hookups? Yeah, I know, fuck sexy MILFs in
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your area right now, just pay nine to ninety nine
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and enter your major credit card.
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Nah.
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Fuck that. I tried the sensitive approach and cast a
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wide net and tried the college dating website scene, and
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I'll see what happens when I cast a line. Before
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leaving my dorm, I fired up the old laptop and
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sent off a few messages to some girls up in
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the area. I knew a few of them from going
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to high school, and some I knew by reputation alone.
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I kind of had a feeling that my odds of
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success weren't great. But hey, as a great wise man
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once said, you can't score if you don't take a
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shot right now. Wait, you're thinking, am I really this
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lonely and desperate? Yes? And no. Before I left for school,
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I did have a girl I was going steady with,
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but well, it didn't work out. Maybe it was her,
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maybe it was me. Maybe I shouldn't have tried to
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fuck her best friend Courtney. Maybe TLDR. I'm an idiot
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and got what I deserved. However, who says that good
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guys don't get a second chance? Am I a good guy? Well,
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I'm not Hitler. That has to count for something. Coming
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into Owen Sound was something that I always looked forward to,
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the lovely fall colors of the trees and the big
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hill coming into the downtown. Sure this place sucked to
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grow up, but I'll be damned if it wasn't a
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gorgeous place to look at for a little while. I
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drove up to my parents' house on the west side
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of town by the old Blockbuster and unloaded my backpack
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in hockey bags. Walked into the old house that was
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clearly built before people knew what HVAC was and half
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decent wiring. It's quiet here, even the dog is gone.
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They almost never take that yappy thing with them on vacation.
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That's pretty weird. Guess the neighbors finally said, fuck you.
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Your dog won't stop shitting on our lawn, So no,
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Bob and Linda, I won't look after your mud. My
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room was just as I left it. It looked like
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a bomb went off in it. Dirty clothes, fast food, wrappers,
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and I'm pretty sure a half empty can of Red
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Bull stuffed up under my computer desk. Speaking of my computer,
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I fired up the old desktop that I didn't take
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with me to school. I logged onto a few of
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the college dating sites that I was on before I left,
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and kind of hoped that i'd find someone to help
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take my mind off things for a while. Seems like
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more than a few swiped away from yours, truly, but hey,
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this is just separating the wheat from the chaff. The
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strong survive. Right after sorting through like twenty messages and
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getting shot down almost consistently a hit, I've never been
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so happy to see a blinking notification on a website
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that wasn't only fans click that so fast that I
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thought the mouse would disintegrate in my hands. It was
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from Tracy Kidd, totally out of my league, totally not
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into me yet. Hey, Josh, glad to hear you're coming
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back to town for a week. When was the last
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time I saw you? Was it the baseball at Toorney
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in Soawble Beach or at jeans party in Chesley? It's
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been way too long. I was totally surprised to hear
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from you, though, such a pleasant surprise. Sorry to hear
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that your friends ditched you for the week or likely
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will that totally sucks blah, get on with it. But
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I kept reading with anticipation, as this could go my
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way or I'm spending my week with a jar of
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vasileene and porn hub. So I'm stuck this week by
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myself too, and I was wondering if you'd like to
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get together, no pressure or anything. I have to close
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my parents' cottage for the winter and I could totally
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use a big strong man to help me out. Well,
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more like, I'd rather not be alone in a giant
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house by myself for a week. So tell you what,
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why don't you come up when you're here and we'll
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get together, have a few laughs, go in the hot tub,
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and drink what's left in the liquor cabinet. Now, this
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is what I am talking about. I texted her so fast,
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and after literally a few seconds, she replied back, Holy shit.
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She gave me a winkie face emoji and said she'd
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be available later tonight. I texted back and asked for
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the address, but tried to play it cool. Pretty sure
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I looked dumb as hell, But it's a bold move, Cotton.
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Let's see how it plays out. Got the address. I
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had a vague idea on where it was Sawable Beach.
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It sounded like it was close to Soggin First Nation Territory,
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the Indian Reservation. I'd been there a few times for
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hockey and had a few friends from there. Good guys, deaf,
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the kind of people you want backing you in a fight.
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You don't fuck with res kids. Had an idea that
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kid was Ojibway, but didn't want to ask. It's cool though.
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Native girls have the most intense dark eyes and that
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amazing black hair. I knew Tracy had a rep, but
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it was well earned. She didn't take any crap from
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any of her boyfriends, so she had that tough girl
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air about her. She was confident, undeniably sexy, but so
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far out of my league. It was like a ten
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year old kid playing in the NHL with a broken arm.
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I can't deny that. I'd love to have a face
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off with her and jersey her if you catch my
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drift still, she responded to me, So if I didn't
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have a shot, then she wouldn't have answered me. Maybe
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this reading week is gonna work out after all, get
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together with a pretty girl, fuck her brains out, and
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return back to the dorms with an awesome story. I
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could also totally brag to my buddies Ryan and Dylan
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how I got laid and they decided to ditch me
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for things like jobs and beer lely losers. I texted
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her back and said I'd take a quick shower and
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grab some supplies and head up her way within the hour.
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It was late afternoon, but I'd still make it up
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there before it got too dark. And then the real
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fun began. I got in the shower and tried to
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imagine all the ways that i'd be all mister super
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sexy and smooth oper Rader. Something felt kind of off
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as I got out of the bathroom, though kind of
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felt like someone was watching me. It only happened for
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a few seconds, but for a moment or two, I
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swear I saw a pair of eyes dart by my
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bedroom window. That would be crazy because I was up
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on the third floor. Maybe cut back on the red
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bulls before I leave for her place, got my luggage together,
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some condoms I had stashed for just such an occasion,
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and a six pack of Canadian from the fridge. I'm
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sure Dad won't mind if I take a few beers
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to entertain a lady again. Something seemed weird as I
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was just getting my keys off the kitchen table and
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I looked out towards the back door. I swear I
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saw the biggest damn dog I'd ever seen, just peering
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in at me and looking at me. Now, who the
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hell let that monster off the leash? Should I call
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the cops or help someone find their dog? Well, if
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it's important enough, then some will come looking, and I'm
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sure that Kujo, the giant dog will find his way home.
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My car felt like something out of Fast and the
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Furious as I hit the gas and hit every single
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light out of town and up Highway six towards Soble Beach.
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I cranked up the radio and started singing along badly
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to whatever was on it. Frankly didn't matter. Tonight was
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gonna be great and I wasn't gonna let anything spoil it.
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This fox was on the prowl. Baby passed by a
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few small towns along the way to Soble Beach. This
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place was world renowned as a tourist destination. Huge white
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sand beach thriving beach community, and of course racial tensions
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because you know northern Ontario. I mean, why do people
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gotta be shitheads? Everyone shit stinks, so why can't we
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all just get along? Right right? Leave it to me.
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I'll solve all the world's problems, like the fucking United Nations.
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The only part of the ride that wasn't full of
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fun and fantasy was still shaking, that weird feeling of
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those eyes watching me.
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More scarce to come weekly, spooky, We'll be right back.
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The main road in Dissamble was quiet, like so quiet
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you could hear a mouse fart for miles. This place
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rolled up the sidewalks after Labor Day weekend and it
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was just the locals left here till the winter comes
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for the snowmobile crowd. Everything was closed or being closed up,
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and the only thing open was a convenience store that
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sold stuff to tourists at inflated prices, and the locals
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knew better than to drive to Owen Sound. I used
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to spend a lot of summers here with the boys
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and even my on and off girlfriends. We'd hang out
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by the giant sign at the beach entrance and walk
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downtown and not have a care in the world. Those
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summers were amazing and I never wanted them to end.
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We'd usually rent a cottage a few times a summer
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along the beach, and it was nothing but parties, loud music, weed,
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and staying up all night playing poker or an old
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Nintendo till we passed out. My GPS started droning on
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its directions to get to Tracy's place. Where in the
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hell was it? Back roads, twists and turns, and I
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don't even think I was anywhere near people at this point.
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If you lived back here, you either valued your privacy
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or had more money than sense to build this far back.
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It was dirt, roads, trees, dense bush, and even an
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occasional swamp. Truly paradise, come to think of it. The
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GPS lady sounded kind of hot. Wait, we are not
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fantasizing about fucking Skynet before Tracy, are we we are.
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It's a new level of sadness, but that's okay. It'll
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be prime time soon enough. Finally I found the address,
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and it was tucked back about as far as one
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could go without being totally off grid. I think her
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neighbors must be easily fifteen or twenty minutes away, and
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I haven't seen any cars pass me, and at least
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that long. On the plus side, no one will hear
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her scream my name when we get down to it.
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I drove carefully along the dirt road, trying not to
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bottom out my car. I'm still paying this thing off,
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and the last thing I need is to take it
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in because I knocked off my muffler. Her cottage comes
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into view and it's way bigger than I expected. Looks
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like someone built this place by hand, and they had
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amazing taste as well. Two stories, big glorious windows, and
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a gorgeous wrap around deck and even a little swing set.
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This place was like something out of a TV show
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or a movie. I pulled up beside pickup truck and
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started to get out when I noticed something as I
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opened the car door. What in the hell was that smell?
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It smelled like a wet dog mixed with something else.
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It almost smelled like rotten meat that had been left
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out in the sun for a few hours. You spend
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enough time in the woods and you know what trouble
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smells like. And this did not exactly scream friendly. Must
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be roadkillers. Something died in the woods nearby. I mean
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there were bears, coyotes, and foxes around here. Probably safe
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to assume that I should get inside quickly. I'd rather
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not end up as something's dinner tonight. I probably taste great.
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One last thing to prepare, I sprayed a little bottle
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of axe body spray on myself before I went up
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to the door. Might as well smell like desperation and
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a little bit of horniness in a can. Right headed
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up the deck stairs and knocked on the big wooden door.
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I waited a moment or two, and then knocked again
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and nothing. Did I get the wrong house. I reached
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into my pocket and pulled out my phone to text her,
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but of course, no cell service. I'm pretty sure even
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if I got a bar of service out here, it
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would be a minor technological miracle. Maybe she was fucking
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with me. I mean, it's entirely possible. I started to
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walk back towards my car and defeat and shame when
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I heard a voice call out from an upstairs window, Josh,
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hold on a few, I'm just getting out of the shower.
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The door's unlocked. Head into the living room. I'll be
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down in a few. That was Tracy. I opened the
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door and walked into the cottage, and man, what a trip.
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This place was decked out and all sorts of things
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on the walls. There was a gigantic painting of a
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pack of wolves of a fireplace, and pictures of what
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I presumed were her family. They also had tons of
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handmade things that looked like they must have come from
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the reservation. I think I had heard that her brother
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John was a big shot dancer in the powwow circuit.
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It's pretty badass looking, to be honest. I mean, I
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somehow managed to fuck up coloring books, so this was
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way beyond my skill level. I sat down on her
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sofa and just kept looking around the place, half being
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amazed by all the stuff and the other time being
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kind of snoopy and way too curious. After about ten minutes,
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I hear footsteps coming down the staircase behind me. I
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can't contain my excitement, and I spin around on the
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couch and try to look cool. It didn't work, as
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I turned around so fast that I almost fell off
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the couch. I looked up and saw Tracy Kidd for
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the first time since last summer. She looked gorgeous, long
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black hair. Her makeup was done just right to make
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her eyes pop, and she wore a pair of gray
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sweatpants and a crop top black hoodie. She was beautiful.
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Hey Foxy, long time, no see. Have any trouble finding
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the place, she said in a playful tone. Yeah, my
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GPS tried to take me into Lake Huron, but I
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got here all right. Man, your folks certainly made sure
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this place would be the biggest pain in the ass
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for a pizza guy or Amazon to find. You'd be
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surprised how easily all the cousins find it after pow
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Wow and John comes home for a few weeks, she laughed.
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I'm glad I was able to come up. By the way,
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thanks for messaging me back Trace. I needed a friendly
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face or two while I was home. I'm more than
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happy to help. I even brought up a few beers
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as well. Well, aren't you a fucking gentleman? She laughed.
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Don't worry, I'm fully stocked out here, as I got
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a closed this place up for the winter, and I'm
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not supposed to leave anything behind. My parents said, do
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what you want, but make sure the locks are tight,
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the windows closed, and the power is off. Before Thanksgiving Monday.
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I'm just glad to be out of the city for
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a few days, so anything you need, I got. I'll
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admit it took a lot of restraint to not say
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anything stupid or push my luck too far before we
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even had a chance to get comfortable together. Anything huh, Well,
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that remains to be seen. Her voice and demeanor changed
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for just a second, and I think if I played
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my cards right, then I likely would not be sleeping
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on the sofa. I'm pretty handy and I can count
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to ten without using my fingers, so that has to
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count for something. I joked back with her to see
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if I was gauging the room right. She smiled back
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at me, and it was the kind of look that
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suggested I could lower my defenses and see where things led,
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but slowly, and try to play three D chess as
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it were. Tracy sat down on the couch next to
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me and we just caught up on old times and
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what we've been up to since last summer. She was
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working for the conservation Authority and doing some stuff for
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her brother, like helping him book gigs, so kind of
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like Showbiz meets Captain Planet. It did sound pretty cool,
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if very busy and time consuming. I told her that
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I was at Humber College for photography. I wanted to
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live my dream of being a sports photographer, maybe someday
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work for the NHL or the Canadian Hockey League. As
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the night passed, we started developing into deeper topics and
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it was actually pretty pleasant. She asked me why we
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never hung out more in high school. I always thought
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you were too cool for me. You always had a boyfriend,
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and let's be real, most of these guys make UFC
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fighters seem like cut little kittens in comparison. You could
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have just asked Fox. You were a good guy, kind
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and not too much of an asshole. I didn't care
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much for that Dylan friend of yours, but always thought
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you were all right. I remember the first time I
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saw you and your boyfriend fight at school. You punched
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him so hard when he laid his hands on you.
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It was like watching wonder Woman come to life. It
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was pretty fucking awesome. Funnier when he begged you not
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to do it in front of his friends. Yeah, he
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had it coming. I dated a lot of jerks back then.
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I could handle myself, though. My grandmother taught me a
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lot of things She taught me mostly to take shit
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from no man and to end it decisively. She looked
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at me differently when she said that. To me, the
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air in the room seemed to shift, and it wasn't
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just idle chitchat anymore. It was something more real. Sorry
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that you had to go through that trace. You deserve better,
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a lot better. Tracy inched closer to me on the
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couch and actually started to cuddle into me. I actually
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felt all my bravado and all my intent ooze away
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as she did. I was vulnerable, and so was she.
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This was the make it or break it moment. This
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is where I either have an amazing night or I
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fuck it up completely. I've been lonely for a while, Josh,
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things got different after you left. She almost whispered it,
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like it was a secret. She wasn't supposed to tell anyone.
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What do you mean, what's wrong? I asked, and genuinely
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meant it. The idea of getting laid kind of became secondary. Now,
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I mean, what if this was something else? What if
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this was one of those moments where something becomes really real.
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I know why you came here, but I'm not mad.
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Oh fuck no, no, it's fine, I wanted you to come.
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It's more than just a hookup, right. How do I
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answer this? Maybe I'll play honestly because I don't know.
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She can lay me out cold and leave me for
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the bears outside to eat. I'll admit it. A lot
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has changed since I came here and actually started talking
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with you. It's one thing to have a hot girl
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answer you on a dating site and another thing to
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have said hot girl invite you up to a cottage
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for a few days. I get the feeling that you've
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been really real with me, and I haven't had that
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since Melissa, my ex, the one you tried to cheat on. Yeah,
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I own that fuck up. I didn't expect to say
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that out loud, but it came so naturally. If I'm
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going to be present and here in the moment, then
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and I had better be on my best behavior. You're
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not a bad guy, Josh. I can smell it on you. Okay,
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that's a weird thing to say, but sure, that's just
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the body spray, I nervously laughed. She sat up and
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sat on my lap and looked deep into my eyes.
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She was a lot heavier than I expected to be. Honestly,
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she was built like a tank. She didn't look this strong,
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but looks are deceiving. I'm pretty sure she could bench
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press me and not even break a sweat. No, Josh,
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it's perfectly fine. We all have needs, and so do I.
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It's nothing to be ashamed of. She touched the side
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of my face and traced a line from my hairline
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to my cheek and cupped my chin in her hand.
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Normally this is where I'd get down to business and
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go to town, but here I was absolutely in her hand.
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I was her plaything and she knew it. She had
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this animalistic power over me. And on one hand, it
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was kind of scary how much I knew she could
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overpower me, but I kind of wanted it that way.
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I looked back into her eyes, and there was something
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in there I didn't expect to see. I could see
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this primal hunger and this ferocity you see in a
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wild predator like a wolf for a lynx. This is
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a weird line between sexy as fuck and scary. I
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think I'm turned on but also kinda terrified. What would
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you say to a little game? You win, you can
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have your way with me, and if I win, then
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I can do whatever I want to you. Okay, what
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do I have to do? Answer me honestly, and I'll
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know if you're lying, she said in a flirty but
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also serious tone. She pulled her hair back into a
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ponytail and didn't take her deep brown eyes off me.
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She was sizing me up in a way that I
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can't say I've ever seen outside of a nature documentary.
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Suddenly I felt like a kitten trapped in a cage
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with a lioness. This is either gonna get kinky or weird,
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probably both. Relax your body and let me guide you.
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I need you to trust me, Josh. She took my
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hands and placed them on her sides, and she kept
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eye contact with me. I relaxed as much as I could.
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I was a little hard, because well, I'm a guy.
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She smiled at me and winked, and then got serious again.
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Do you trust me, Josh? She took my hands and
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put them on her breasts and kept her body taut
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against mine. Okay, this is going places, I do, I
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stammered out. Do you want me, Josh? I do? This
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is happening? Would you still want me if I told
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you a secret? Sure? I mean, it's not like you
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killed anybody right. I could feel her body tense up
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as soon as I said that, And what if I did?
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You're not safe yet, weekly Spooky will be right back. Okay,
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not sure. I like where this is going. I don't
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think you're a murderer. Kid. Tough as shit, but you're
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not a killer. Tracy took my hands and guided them
477
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to her face and held them against the side of
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her head, and we just held hands like that for
479
00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:02.319
a moment. There was a tenderness and a longing. In
480
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:06.079
this moment. I could feel my cheeks flush and my
481
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:10.119
heart beating out of my chest like a jackhammer. What
482
00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:13.440
if you're wrong about me? Would you still want me?
483
00:31:14.440 --> 00:31:17.559
She relaxed our hands and leaned in to kiss me.
484
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:20.920
I could feel her breath just as our lips were
485
00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:24.799
about to touch, and for a moment, it was like
486
00:31:24.839 --> 00:31:27.640
the first time I was with someone and I totally
487
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:35.039
forgot the peril I was likely in. Yes, good, she
488
00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:40.680
whispered as she kissed me, long and deep, passionately. This
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00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:44.720
wasn't an I want to fuck you kiss. This was
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00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:49.720
an I want you forever kind of kiss. Now you
491
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:53.240
only have to do one more thing, and it's simple.
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00:31:54.599 --> 00:31:58.000
I want you too, but you have to prove how
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00:31:58.039 --> 00:32:02.960
strong and clever you are? Can you do that? At
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00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:05.440
this moment, I'm pretty sure I would have sold meth
495
00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:10.000
to nuns. I can do that. I want you to
496
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:13.079
play hide and seek with me for ten minutes, and
497
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:17.920
I'll give you a head start. Seriously, all I gotta
498
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.039
do to sleep with this amazing and enchanting sexual goddess
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00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.920
is play hide and seek for ten minutes. This is
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gonna be so awesome. Okay, that's it, I laughed. That's it.
501
00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:40.960
I might suggest you start running now, though, what run? Why?
502
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:45.839
This seems a little hardcore for for play, don't you think,
503
00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:50.119
I thought to myself. Tracy leaned in and kissed me again,
504
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:55.279
and this time it almost felt sad, like a goodbye
505
00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:59.759
in a sense. She took herself off my body, off
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00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.079
the couch and stood up to her full height. If
507
00:33:04.119 --> 00:33:06.079
you're going to mate with me, then I need to
508
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:10.720
know how strong and clever my pups will be. As
509
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:13.359
soon as she said that, I thought I was going
510
00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:16.839
to shit my pants. This little five foot eight, dark
511
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:19.279
skinned girl started to grow in front of me like
512
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:23.000
something out of a nightmare. Her skin started to ripple
513
00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:26.359
and a rough, dark brown furry merged like a wave.
514
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:31.160
Her features twisted and snapped like muscles and bone snapping
515
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:35.240
into new shapes. The face of Tracy Kidd was replaced
516
00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:40.000
by a long, wolf like snout filled with sharp, unforgiving teeth.
517
00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:45.279
Those once kind hands shaped into impossibly long claws that
518
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:49.519
scraped the hardwood floor beneath her. She towered over me
519
00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:55.759
at easily nine feet tall. A rough, almost unrecognizable voice
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00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:00.519
growled out of her horrifying visage. I'm going to count
521
00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.880
to thirty and then, if you can survive for ten minutes,
522
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:10.679
I'm all yours. I screamed and screamed till my voice
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00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.719
was hoarse, and I started to run in any direction.
524
00:34:14.440 --> 00:34:20.320
But where I was, Tracy Kid was a fucking werewolf. Fuck.
525
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:24.239
I gotta run, gotta run, gotta run. I threw open
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00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:26.519
the front door and tripped down the stairs as I
527
00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:30.119
went and landed hard on the grass out front, and
528
00:34:30.199 --> 00:34:33.039
felt the wind to get knocked out of me. I
529
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:36.039
felt my car keys jab into my leg, and Jesus
530
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:39.880
Christ did that hurt. I started stumbling towards my car
531
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:41.960
and thought about how the hell I was going to
532
00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:44.119
get out of here when I didn't even know where
533
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:47.880
here was in this dark. It was so pitch black,
534
00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:50.960
and her porch lights were off. I struggled to get
535
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:54.280
my car keys in the lock. They wouldn't turn. I
536
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:57.840
kept turning the keys, but the door wouldn't open. Shit,
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00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:01.199
I must have bent the key when I fell. Fuck,
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00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:05.320
I'm gonna die here, aren't I. I felt beads of
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00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:08.760
sweat run down my face and start to sting my eyes.
540
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Panic had gripped my entire body. This was it, wasn't it.
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00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:17.679
This is where it all ends for me. I started
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00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:20.400
running down the dirt laneway towards what I assumed was
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00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:23.559
the main road that I had came in on. I
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00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:26.079
didn't even look back, as I kept focusing on putting
545
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:28.360
one foot in front of the other and doing my
546
00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:32.119
best to keep my forward momentum going. I just wanted
547
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.360
to get with a girl this week. I just wanted
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00:35:35.360 --> 00:35:39.440
to get laid right now. I just want to live
549
00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:43.639
to see tomorrow. Fuck. I'll take surviving the next hour
550
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.440
if it means I can keep breathing. I kept running
551
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:50.840
further and further into the darkness, and eventually the lights
552
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:54.000
from Tracy's cottage could barely be seen because of the
553
00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:58.519
thick mess of pine trees, looking around for anywhere to hide,
554
00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:00.800
or at least a place to get gather myself for
555
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:04.239
a second and to catch my breath. I'm not exactly
556
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:06.400
in the worst of shape, but I could feel my
557
00:36:06.519 --> 00:36:09.119
legs start to turn to jelly and each breath start
558
00:36:09.159 --> 00:36:12.519
to burn as I gasped for air. Peeking off the
559
00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:15.400
lane way, I started dashing into the woods, and when
560
00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:17.960
I finally got into an area too dense to run,
561
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I started to slow down and carefully walk so as
562
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not to make too much noise. I couldn't hear anything
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00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:28.880
except the faint sounds of a distant owl and the
564
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.920
lapping of some nearby body of water. It's too quiet
565
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.679
out here, and all I can truly hear is the
566
00:36:35.719 --> 00:36:39.000
blood pumping in my ears. I have a lot to
567
00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:41.639
be sorry for if this is where it all ends tonight.
568
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:45.519
I'm sorry, Mom and Dad. I know you wanted me
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to go off to school like my sister and become
570
00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:53.480
a doctor, but I wasn't smart enough. I'm mostly sorry
571
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:57.360
to my ex girlfriend, Melissa Hugh didn't deserve what I
572
00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.400
tried to do to you. I thought I was something
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00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:03.840
special because someone else besides you took a liking to me,
574
00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:08.639
and I let it go to my head. I fucked up,
575
00:37:09.199 --> 00:37:13.159
and I made a lot of people unhappy in my life.
576
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:16.320
Maybe I deserved to be torn apart by this creature
577
00:37:17.280 --> 00:37:22.119
or turned into a weird breeding thing for her. I
578
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:26.119
probably deserved this. I leaned back against a tree and
579
00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:28.719
let out a sigh and just looked up at the
580
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:32.159
sky for a second. I don't know how long it's
581
00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:35.800
been since I ran from the house, maybe five minutes,
582
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:41.519
and that's probably being generous. I could smell that rotting
583
00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:47.440
flesh again. Shit. Suddenly, something wet and heavy slammed into
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00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:50.840
my chest and knocked me hard against the tree. Felt
585
00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.199
like it cracked a rib or ten. I crumbled into
586
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:56.480
a heap at the base of the tree and was
587
00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:00.239
instantly dazed. I tried to keep from passing out from
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00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.840
the pain and keep focused enough to get my wits
589
00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:07.679
about me. I opened my eyes, and I instantly regretted
590
00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:11.719
that decision. Once again, I found myself face to face
591
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:16.440
with something that shouldn't exist yet here it was, right
592
00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:19.760
here in front of me. There was enough pale light
593
00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:22.599
cast from the overhead moon that I could see the
594
00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:26.800
face of the creature. Looking right into my soul. Tracy
595
00:38:27.039 --> 00:38:31.000
or whatever she was, kept inching closer to me with
596
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:36.400
her gigantic mouth drooling. Her spit glistened in the moonlight
597
00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:44.800
like dew. Okay, this was really it, Tracy. If you're
598
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:48.599
gonna kill me, make it quick, and please don't make
599
00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:50.960
my mom and dad have to worry that I disappeared.
600
00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:55.239
Give them something to bury, I croaked out in a
601
00:38:55.280 --> 00:38:59.320
weak voice. The werewolf stood up to its full height
602
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:04.079
and its head and looked at me. I looked up
603
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:08.920
into the eyes of the creature, and suddenly they weren't
604
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:13.000
the eyes of a monster. They were Tracy Kid's eyes.
605
00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:18.440
Tracy's lupine form leaned down and moved closer to my
606
00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:21.760
body and nuzzled it like a dog would to an
607
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:26.880
injured friend or owner. Her big wolf like head nuzzled
608
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:30.400
up against mine and touched the side of my face gently.
609
00:39:31.960 --> 00:39:35.599
This is not what I expected. Her form began to
610
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:38.920
shift back into the nineteen year old native girl I
611
00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:42.440
had a crush on once she was naked, but at
612
00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:50.159
that moment it didn't matter. Josh, are you afraid to die? Yeah?
613
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:55.239
I am. I don't want my parents to worry or
614
00:39:55.320 --> 00:39:58.960
my sister. I'm sorry for a lot of things in
615
00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:02.280
my life. I'm sorry that I came up here looking
616
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:08.079
to take advantage of you. I'm sorry for everything, I
617
00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:13.280
whispered quietly. I know you are I can smell it
618
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:17.519
on you. You're a lot of things, Joshua Fox, but
619
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:21.239
you're not a bad guy. She reached out again with
620
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:25.360
her hands and cupped mine in hers and touched my face.
621
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:31.840
I'm sorry, Tracy. What would you say if I said
622
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:37.800
I was still interested in you? Okay? I went from
623
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:45.800
preparing to meet the Almighty to whatever this is. I'm confused.
624
00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:49.159
What do you mean? I didn't know how to process
625
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:54.159
what exactly was happening at that moment. I'm lonely, josh
626
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:56.719
I want to be with someone who can be honest
627
00:40:56.800 --> 00:40:59.960
like you are right now. What if I offered you
628
00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:05.199
a chance to be like me, strong, powerful, and to
629
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:10.760
be a part of something different? What exactly was Tracy
630
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:15.159
asking me. She took back her left hand and extended
631
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:18.920
one of her fingernails to an unnatural length and pointed
632
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:23.440
it at me. Be with me, josh When we mate
633
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:27.719
with another, we take on strong, spiritual and personality traits
634
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.840
from the partner. I want my pups to have that
635
00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:35.480
honesty and that vulnerability you showed tonight. You could have
636
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.599
tried to fuck me and then left in the morning,
637
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:42.400
but instead you chose to talk and open up. You
638
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:45.440
went with plan B, even though you didn't immediately mean to.
639
00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:54.079
Will I be just like you like a monster? Yes
640
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.159
and no. I'll have to show you how to control
641
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:00.239
your new life, and you'll be different from everyone else,
642
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:04.280
but you'll meet others like me. It's not as scary
643
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.400
as it sounds. Trust me, I found out from my
644
00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:10.760
grandmother in high school. How did you think I got
645
00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:17.400
so strong? Will it hurt just for a minute. Tracy
646
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:21.559
leaned in and pressed her naked body against mine, and
647
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:26.960
I felt her fingernail cut deep across my back. Pain
648
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.800
and fire seared across the wound, and I wanted to
649
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:44.320
throw up but couldn't. I immediately passed out. The next day,
650
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:47.239
I woke up next to Tracy in an unfamiliar bed,
651
00:42:47.840 --> 00:42:52.760
and all my wounds had healed. I felt weird, like
652
00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:56.239
everything was moving in slow motion, but I was hyper
653
00:42:56.320 --> 00:43:01.400
aware of everything. I could hear birds and things that
654
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:05.480
seemed miles away. I felt like I was stronger than
655
00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:09.679
I'd ever been in my life. I got up out
656
00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:17.199
of bed and noticed I was also naked. Oh that's unexpected. Well,
657
00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:21.239
if I had any fun last night, it seems like
658
00:43:21.360 --> 00:43:27.280
I wasn't totally present for that little escapade. I passed
659
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:33.920
by a mirror and noticed something different about myself. I
660
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:37.400
had the same animalistic look in my own brown eyes
661
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:41.000
that Tracy did when we were on the couch last night.
662
00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:52.760
Well this is gonna take some getting used to, isn't it. Well,
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00:43:52.760 --> 00:43:55.519
my spooky's I hope you enjoyed that little bit of
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00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:59.320
terror with a happy end ding from our buddy in
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the Great White North, as much as I did. Nothing
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00:44:02.960 --> 00:44:06.079
beats a good love story, especially when things tend to
667
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:10.239
get a little hairy. So I want to mention real quick.
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We have another story publishing tomorrow where we'll be heading
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back to Strickfield, as Rob Fields tells us, another terrifying
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tale of Halloween. So make sure you're subscribed and you're
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back here tomorrow. I know, I know it's Saturday, but
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you gotta squeeze in all the spooky you can before
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the thirty first. Of course, then again, the whole point
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of this show is that Halloween never truly ends. As
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we celebrate it at least once a week. And if
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you love what we're doing.
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Here at Weekly Spooky, and we've been doing it for
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every single week. But now I need to get back
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to work because there are so many more shows to
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Thank you for this fame.
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