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The Thing In The Basement (Six)
2008-06-09 02:54:00
Oh, the things we trade.The things we trade away.Like a little kid, trading away a Hank Aaron rookie card for someone else because he doesn't like Hank Aaron as much as that other player who doesn't even stick in his memory anymore, never knowing that the Hank Aaron rookie card would have allowed him to live a life of leisure.Okay, that's not my memory. That one was actually my uncle's. That's the only appearance he'll make in this story, though.My family was not one of the things I traded away for anything. They were just not a big part of my life anymore.Or maybe I did trade them away, because I did move away from them. And I enjoyed where I lived. Days like that one day, about two months after David was born. I was driving to work. I'd begun heading into the office a little more in those days, in part because I was busier, in part because I was trying to avoid the house, and what I'd come to think of as The Thing (I didn't really know where it was at that point. Remember...
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Easy. Fast. Secure. Just like my dates in high school. Wait, I don't get
2008-06-09 02:43:00
Free secure backup of your data, available from any computer you have in front of you from anywhere in the world -- and available to others, as well: that's IDrive -- the online service provider that securely backs up your data.IDrive's software creates a virtual drive on your computer; when you save files to that virtual drive, they're locked into IDrive's secure server through the internet. This service is easy to use, it's fast to use, and it's secure. That security would be the most important thing, except that to me the most important thing is the low cost. I said "free," and I meant it. Back up up to 2 gigs of data for absolutely nothing. Want to store more? IDrive gives you 150 GB of storage for just $4.95 per month. 150 gigs of storage for less than $60 per year; you can't get a detachable hard drive for that price, and even if you did, you'd have to lug it around with you. Let IDrive do the lugging around; check out this amazing service today; they were voted b...
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Kids are hard to take care of, but so are demons
2008-05-23 18:43:00
The Deal Part 7: Kids Are Hard To Take Care Of posted today.AfterDark features horror stories published in serial format. A new part is posted roughly about once per week. Want to submit your own artwork? Drop me a line at thetroublewithroy @ yahoo.com Want to get updates when I post stories? Do the same.The Stories:The Deal: Little Jake is tormented nightly by a demon, and his parents won't help. His brother might, but his brother is gone.You Know What Happens After DarkFreddy learns why we always close the eyes of the dead, and wishes that she hadn't.Eclipse Claudius was going to be the first man to ever walk on another planet. Now he's drifting through space alone. But he's got his memories...
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Free. Cash Back. Smart.
2008-05-23 18:14:00
You can have the best computer in the world, and the best internet DSL hookup, and a great location for working on your computer like that one awesome table at the coffee shop, but it doesn't mean diddly squat if you don't have a good ISP -- an Internet Service Provider.Your ISP is your link to the Internet, and choosing the right ISP is critical. Choose the wrong one and you might be paying too much and not getting the most out of your internet experience.With Get.ISP.Info, you can make an informed choice. They can help you decide whether dial-up is okay for you, or if you need a screaming fast DSL hookup. Then, once you've chosen your ISP, they can also give you information on protecting your computer from spyware and other Internet problems, and even give you advice on how to keep from being a victim of online con artists.But before you can avoid falling prey to wily Nigerians, before you can avoid pop-ups, before you can worry about whether your computer will be able to hold ...
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Kids are hard to take care of, but so are demons.
2008-05-22 16:02:00
The Deal Part 7: Kids Are Hard To Take Care Of posted today. AfterDark features horror stories published in serial format. A new part is posted roughly about once per week. Want to submit your own artwork? Drop me a line at thetroublewithroy @ yahoo.com Want to get updates when I post stories? Do the same.The Stories:The Deal: Little Jake is tormented nightly by a demon, and his parents won't help. His brother might, but his brother is gone. You Know What Happens After DarkFreddy learns why we always close the eyes of the dead, and wishes that she hadn't.Eclipse Claudius was going to be the first man to ever walk on another planet. Now he's drifting through space alone. But he's got his memories...
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Someday you'll be able to get AfterDark merchandise at the NBC Shop. But u
2008-05-22 15:48:00
When I watch scary movies at home, I tend to do so at about 1 a.m. and by myself. Which means at the end of the movie, I've got to turn off all the lights and go upstairs by myself, head full of images of demons and vampires and other things that probably don't exist but which just might, at 1 a.m.I've learned to be prepared. Sure, those things might not exist, but they just might, so I'd better be ready to fight them off if need be, which means I've got to get some ghost-busting stuff.Battling scary monsters in my imagination could be pricey -- but I've got a way around that. I save money using the online coupons available at Best Online Coupons.With the savings I get from that free site, which offers discount coupons and promotion codes to save at your favorite online stores -- over 700 different merchants in 19 different categories -- I can get all the things I need to safely make it up to my bedroom. Things like, say, an aluminum bat to help fight off werewolves. I kno...
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The Deal (Part 7)
2008-05-22 15:35:00
When they had first talked about having a baby, they had talked it through."Babies can change a lot," Lily had told Jim."How do you mean?" Jim asked.Jim had not been crazy about the idea of having a baby. Now he wondered what she meant by babies."They're a lot of work. I just don't want you to feel pressured.""We never talked about it much before," Jim said."We never talked about babies at all before," Lily pointed out. "But we're talking about it now.""I just want to make sure that it's what you want," Jim said. Lily thought that was a nice move. She'd only brought it up to make sure that it was what he wanted, and now he's acting as though it was his idea and he was concerned about her.She hadn't, at that point, told him that she was pregnant."It... I guess it is what I want, if it's what you want.""I want you," Jim said, "And I want you to be happy.""Do you want a baby?""Do you?""Well, yeah.""Then I do, too." Jim sounded convincing. He looked convincing. Lily did not doub...
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The better way to do things.
2008-05-22 15:15:00
If you're like me, you got involved in this whole "internet" thing more or less by accident and somewhat randomly.In my case, I was hearing a lot about the "internet" and "blogging," and, never being very busy at work, set up my own blog -- this one!-- one day. I also did it because there are never very many good horror stories out there and all mine are better, but mostly it was random.There is a better way to run your hobby or business or life than random chance, you know. You could, say, investigate your options, really learn what's out there for you, engage an expert to help you set up your business, and run it right from day one.In fact, you could do all that right now with WebHostingChoice ("Your guide to web hosting.") WebHostingChoice, as their name says, can help you learn about and get set up with web hosting.When I first started this blog, I had no idea what web hosting was. I didn't know about domain names, hits, bandwidth, anything. I even actually bought a book --...
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If you're going to die, what's the last thing you'd want to see?
2008-05-03 15:45:00
The Deal Part Five: If you were going to die, what's the last thing you'd want to see -- posted today!AfterDark features horror stories published in serial format. A new part is posted roughly about once per week. Want to submit your own artwork? Drop me a line at thetroublewithroy @ yahoo.com Want to get updates when I post stories? Do the same.The Stories:The Deal: Little Jake is tormented nightly by a demon, and his parents won't help. His brother might, but his brother is gone.You Know What Happens After DarkFreddy learns why we always close the eyes of the dead, and wishes that she hadn't.Eclipse Claudius was going to be the first man to ever walk on another planet. Now he's drifting through space alone. But he's got his memories...
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The Deal (Part Five)
2008-05-03 15:35:00
If you knew you were going to die in just one second, what would you want to be your last sight?Would you want it to be your mother?Would you want it to be a sunrise?Would you want it to be a bright blue sky full of clouds so puffy and near that you could pull them down and squish them in your hand like a sponge?Or would you want it to be a swirling tornado of jagged shapes, of tortured colors, of claws and fangs and pieces and scales and horns lit from within by a cold red light that was the exact color of a fire doused in blood?Jake screamed and screamed and screamed until he could feel wet flecks flying out of his mouth. He pushed himself back against the wall, pulling his blankets up and in front of him. His feet pedaled and scrambled and kicked and he screamed and his hands clenched against his chest and he closed his eyes but he still saw it or them or what it was still there and it was coming at him and he could feel its hot breath and he screamed.He was screaming Mom Mom Mom...
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Taking a break
2008-04-20 19:33:00
Hi! Sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but real life (you know, that thing that keeps you from getting on the Internet) is taking over this week; I'll be too busy to post anything until Friday or Saturday -- April 25 or 26-- at the earliest.But in the meantime, why not browse around some of the older stuff? You could check out the hilarious stories on Thinking The Lions -- where you can meet the newest member of the family, "Frankencouch."There's always more to read here on The Best of Everything -- I bet I've got over 200 posts, and many of them don't even mention Dennis DeYoung.Or find out what is or is not a sport, as well as why you should know Owen Meany and my plans for one of my twin sons to grow up to be a lady golfer, over on Nonsportsmanlike Conduct.You can see those twin sons, and a lot of other Babies! and Pets! on Babies! Babies! Pets! Pets!; take this week to send in your own photos for that site -- Mark!-- and maybe you'll win the coveted year-end t-sh...
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The world's best horror stories
2008-03-20 15:09:00
Part Seven of "You know what happens after dark" is up today...Part Seven: More than one person is in here... Under The Eyes Of Godfeatures horror stories published in serial format. A new part is posted roughly about once per week. Want to submit your own artwork? Drop me a line at thetroublewithroy @ yahoo.com Want to get updates when I post stories? Do the same.The Stories :You Know What Happens After DarkFreddy learns why we always close the eyes of the dead, and wishes that she hadn't.Eclipse Claudius was going to be the first man to ever walk on another planet. Now he's drifting through space alone. But he's got his memories...Knock!Mari was alone with her baby when she first heard it... a knock coming from thin air in her room. As a door begins to materialize, her world begins to disintegrate.
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Part 7: More than one person is in here...
2008-03-20 15:01:00
?Help you what??Kill you.Freddy sucked in her breath. That couldn?t be Lois.It?s not said another voice. She felt her chest tighten. She heard a rush of air in her ears. Her eyes snapped open and she saw shadows flit away from her sight.It?s easier if you can see us she heard.Get away she recognized Lois, the feel of Lois. The thought of her.The person who said get away, the voice who felt like Lois, was the same person who?d said she wanted to kill her.A flick of darkness went across her vision. She sat up suddenly, but not because she wanted to. Her back muscles clenched and held her upright. Her head slowly turned to look at the door, or where the door would be if it weren?t too dark to see it.She watched as her body leaned forward. Her hands had been laying in her lap. They lifted up limply on the ends of her arms as she leaned towards the door. She leaned more and more until she fell forward onto her hands. She wanted to yelp in pain, her wrists jamming into her arms. But her m...
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The World's Best Horror Stories
2008-01-26 17:16:00
ECLIPSE, Part 9, Posted today! Go here (or page down) to read it. Under The Eyes Of God features horror stories published in serial format. A new part is posted roughly one or two times per month. Want to submit your own artwork? Drop me a line at thetroublewithroy @ yahoo.comWant to get updates when I post stories? Do the same.The Stories :Eclipse (NEW STORY!) Claudius was going to be the first man to ever walk on another planet. Now he's drifting through space alone. But he's got his memories...Knock! Mari was alone with her baby when she first heard it... a knock coming from thin air in her room. As a door begins to materialize, her world begins to disintegrate.The Window. Jared threw a rock through the window. He didn't expect it to end up like this... with the dead animals and the attacks and the sounds at his window and the collection.
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Eclipse Part Nine: Acceleration is fundamentally indistinguishable from a
2008-01-26 17:02:00
Claudius lay on his back, immobile. Dreaming.He dreamed that he was working. He was pushing a lawnmower, sweating. It was hot. The air was still and thick as he pushed through it. The lawnmower roared. He sweated and rubbed his forehead. He pushed through more thick grass, looking at the house that he was mowing in front of. He wondered if someone was moving around in there. He wondered if they had air conditioning. He rubbed his forehead more and more, pressing harder and harder. It grew tender.He opened his eyes. Something was wrong with that dream. He was in a small room. He could tell that simply by moving his head, as he lay on his back, and looking at the contours of the room.His head would not move far. It felt to him as though he was collared in. His vision was circumscribed, as though wearing a helmet. He tried to move himself but could not do so; he felt numb. He looked at the dim walls around him. He looked at the ceiling. He was resting on something, wasn?t he? He tried ...
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Home of the best horror stories on the internet!
2007-12-05 04:37:00
UPDATE 12/4/07: Part 6 of Eclipse, "Was This The Only World You Had?" Is Up today!Under The Eyes Of God features horror stories published in serial format. A new part is posted roughly one time per week.Want to submit your own artwork? Drop me a line at thetroublewithroy @ yahoo.comThe Stories :Eclipse (NEW STORY!)Claudius was going to be the first man to ever walk on another planet. Now he's drifting through space alone. But he's got his memories...(parts 1-5 up)Knock!Mari was alone with her baby when she first heard it... a knock coming from thin air in her room. As a door begins to materialize, her world begins to disintegrate.The Window.Jared threw a rock through the window. He didn't expect it to end up like this... with the dead animals and the attacks and the sounds at his window and the collection.
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Part Six: Was This The Only World You Had?
2007-12-05 04:24:00
Claudius sat at the desk and tapped his pen on his the paper where he was working on a crossword puzzle.?Seven letters,? he told himself. ?A disgraceful ending.? The sixth letter, he hoped, was ?p.?Claudius did the crossword puzzles in ink. He never made a mistake and tried not to fill in the word until he was sure. He sometimes took a leap of faith and usually was correct when he did so, but that made him no more or less likely to do so the next time. He tapped the pen against his teeth, then reached out to turn up the radio that sat on his desk as a new song came on. Claudius recognized it: a classic rock song from years back, ?What Is And What Should Never Be,? by Led Zeppelin.He pulled his hand back and saw the smudge that he?d left on the radio?s knobs, a smudge of newsprint that had transferred from his paper to his hands and now the radio. He wiped his hand on his coverall pants, but all that did was smear the newsprint around more and get it on his pants. He brushed it on hi...
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Your Home For The Best Horror Stories On The Internet
2007-10-28 16:19:00
NEW POST 10/28/07: Eclipse Part Two, "You Always Remember Your First Time," posted today! Under The Eyes Of God features horror stories published in serial format. A new part is posted roughly one time per week. Want to submit your own artwork? Drop me a line at thetroublewithroy @ yahoo.com The Stories :Eclipse (NEW STORY!)Claudius was going to be the first man to ever walk on another planet. Now he's drifting through space alone. But he's got his memories...Knock!Mari was alone with her baby when she first heard it... a knock coming from thin air in her room. As a door begins to materialize, her world begins to disintegrate.The Window.Jared threw a rock through the window. He didn't expect it to end up like this... with the dead animals and the attacks and the sounds at his window and the collection.
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Eclipse Part Two: You Always Remember Your First Time
2007-10-28 16:13:00
Claudius saw the face of God in the stars, and he saw the stars when he was in Punishment.Punishment was never easy. It was unpredictable in how it would come, when it would come, and why it would come. But Punishment always came.It was also unpredictable, how long he would stay in Punishment. Sometimes it was minutes, seconds, even, if Punishment was swift and physical, a punch in the stomach. Sometimes it was longer, when Punishment had him standing in a corner holding a cinder block over his head and looking over his shoulder to see if his quivering arms would be noticed and cause for more Punishment. Sometimes Punishment seemed like it lasted a lifetime.In the future, as he drifted, Claudius would look at the speck-grown-to-dot and think it? ironic? ? that he had begun this by seeing the stars, but would end it without seeing them at all. With the sun behind him, its light blotted out the stars and ahead of him was nothing but blackness, so uniform and implacable that it might h...
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This is what terror is
2007-09-29 04:57:00
Terror is...The feeling that you get when you wake in the middle of the night, and everything is silent, and just before you fall back to sleep, you realize that you woke because you heard a noise in your house.And the noise was not of this world.Read on for the world's best horror stories:Knock!Mari was alone with her baby when she first heard it... a knock coming from thin air in her room. As a door begins to materialize, her world begins to disintegrate.The Window.Jared threw a rock through the window. He didn't expect it to end up like this... with the dead animals and the attacks and the sounds at his window and the collection.Bored:How will you know if you're dead? (Work in progress)Announcements:I'd like spooky pictures! If you have a picture or drawing you think would fit one of the stories, or want to do illustrations for my stories, send them to me at thetroublewithroy@yahoo.com. I'll post any good ones and give full credit. Make an on-line slide show at onetruemedia.com
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Knock! Part Seven
2007-09-29 04:45:00
Austin was shrieking. He wailed and howled and gasped for breath. Mari in her mind tried to protect him, to calm him, but she moved very little at all. Her body was numb, each cell in it frozen solid with the echoing memory of the voice.I will make it through. I will make it through.I.Will.Make.It.Through.She rolled each word around in her mind.The door was there, now, real, more real than things around her. Worse than the door being there was whatever was behind the door, whatever had discovered the door and was trying to get through.She could not breath.Nothing was around her.The world had faded away when the creature had come up, when it had wriggled Mr. O?Malley?s foot, when the creature had knocked on the door, but she realized now that it was not knocking, not politely requesting to enter, but was trying to batter the door down.She did not bother trying to think how this door to another place had come to exist in her bedroom, or why her own world stopped existing around her wh...
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Read on...
2007-04-22 18:05:00
There are things that happen at the edge of reality, that happen in the intersection between life and death, good and evil, human and in human. There are things that take love and hate and life and death and twist them into something recognizable, but unwanted. If you want to know about those things, read on...UPDATE: 4/22/07: KNOCK! PART FIVE posted today. Mari goes inside to find out why Mr. O'Malley has not come outside. Knock!Mari was alone with her baby when she first heard it... Work in progress; parts 1-4 up. The Window.Jared threw a rock through the window. He didn't expect it to end up like this... Temporary Anne:For too long, she has known the secret to avoiding her own trip to Hell, and now she's telling you how. The Thing In The Basement:Jude was the last to die in his family, but not the first to die in this house. Astrid Forever:Astrid's been dead for three days... but she's just getting around to asking Ted a favor. Bored:How will you know if you're dead? (Work ...
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Knock! Part 5
2007-04-22 17:49:00
Part Five:?It?s nothing,? Mari told herself as she walked back into the house, slowly. She went the same route that Mr. O?Malley had.It?s nothing she kept repeating in her head. She clutched Austin to herself. It occurred to her it?s always someone ?clutching? someone else in horror books but it?s true. She looked down at her hands. She was trying very hard not to smother Austin, but her hands were splayed wide one behind his head and one under him, her knuckles white from the effort to not run, the effort to not push him into her too hard, from trying not to let her hands shake and drop him.It?s nothing. Of course it was. That was what she was so terrified about. She walked up the short flight of stairs, looked in the hall, the kitchen, went to the window Mr. O?Malley had looked out of to see her. She did not expect to see Mr. O?Malley?s body. She did not expect to see anything.She did not, though, want to see nothing.Finally she had no choice but to go upstairs.She walked even mor...
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Temporary Anne, Six
2006-06-20 03:45:00
That was all I needed, was a little bit.That nurse sat there, talking with me. She told me how her son had taken his first spelling test just that day, and had come home with a "100" written on it and a gold star (and I can't believe there are still schools giving gold stars, but this was a Catholic school, after all) and he'd been so proud. She'd made him a cupcake with a candle and sang a congratulations to him in the tune of Happy Birthday.While she talked and told me of that boy, whose name I deliberately did not listen to, I watched the walls. I watched the floor. And I watched the ceiling, and that was where the demon came from.Demons are not of our world, as you well know. They do not interact with our world the same way physical things do, but they are not immaterial, either. Hell exists not as a place that is up, or down, or over there, but extant here and now, just now in this here or this now. It is all around us in a sense, but we are not able to feel it or sen...
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Temporary Anne, Five
2006-06-18 00:31:00
After so many years, after so many close calls, I feel I begin to know some of the demons that come after me. I never talk to them, oh no, but I know them nonetheless. While they are blurry around the edges and horrid to look at -- so terrible that they make my eyes burn when I look directly at them -- I can nonetheless recognize them. They are amorphous only within the outline of their shells.I felt it as I began writing this, and no longer feel it.Why am I writing this, you might wonder? I will tell you, as I have told others before. You, reader of this missive, are not the first such reader and will not be the last. I write this, and I have written these before, as a warning of sorts. A warning to you, and to anyone you can tell. You have read this far, so you know what it is that happened to me and what it is that I do. And you know who I seek out. I seek out the innocent, the good, the pure, because it is them I need and you will see more clearly why as you read.So to...
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Chapter 9: What The Thing In The Basement Does
2006-04-30 19:47:00
It couldn't go on long after that. I knew, you know, everyone knows.I could go on a long time. I could go on forever. I could give you detail upon detail upon detail.I've got nothing but time.But, then, you know that, don't you? You're a good listener. I guess you've got the time, too.But there couldn't be much after that.After that night that I saw the Thing I never saw it again. I never saw the blood, either. I never saw the bricks moving again.I could still hear things. I just couldn't see things. Whatever it had done to my eye, I couldn't see the things I used to.And I couldn't talk about anything, really, but the most innocuous things. I know because I tried. The night before, I tried.The night before what?The night before I killed myself.I was lying in bed, lying awake. I could hear the things rustling around me. I could hear the flowing sound of blood like a river outside my bedroom. I guess I was grateful that I couldn't see them.But I could hear and I didn't like...
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Chapter 8: The Things Start Talking To Me
2006-04-24 02:37:00
You're not getting tired of listening to me, are you?Like you could do anything about it.I'd like to tell you it wasn't all bad, during those years. I'd like to tell you that there were plenty of nights that Angie and David sat with Melissa and me and watched TV, or played Monopoly, or just listened to music or ate a nice dinner.We must have, right?I can't think of them right now, though. I can't remember those nights. The nights that stick in my memory, the things I can remember, seem to be dictated.The Things I can remember are dictated by the Thing In The Basement. Ha. That's rich, right? But they are.Is she looking at me?Never mind.I do remember the night that things started talking to me. I remember that night, which started out normally enough. We were, in fact, playing Monopoly. Melissa and David and I were playing. Angie was not old enough to play, so she and Melissa were on a team.Like now, you might say.I don't remember if I was winning or losing. There's an apt l...
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You Can't Walk Away From The Thing In The Basement
2006-03-06 04:32:00
Blood. That was what it looked like.After a while, the feelings I would get upon coming home weren't remarkable anymore. And the horror of the accident had faded.David was three when I saw the blood.David was four, and Angie was one, when I no longer noticed the blood because of the birds.But first the blood.It looked like blood.It smelt like blood.It coagulated and crusted up and scabbed like blood.God help me. I can't think of this next part without saying that. God help me, it tasted like blood.What would Melissa have said if she'd seen me? I'd been seeing the blood for a few weeks. Maybe months. I don't know. Time runs together now and it ran together then. I'd first seen the blood trickling down a hallway. A little stream of blood, right down the center of our upstairs hallway, not more than a quarter inch wide. It had reached the end of the hallway and the first step, and was just about to form a full-fledged drop. I saw the drop forming at the end of the stream as I cam...
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Bored
2005-12-19 03:50:00
It was dark. Tom knew his eyes were open because he remembered opening them, but it was dark enough that he wouldn't have otherwise known.It was really dark. There wasn't the slightest hint of light. Usually in the dark you'd adapt and your eyes would begin to pick out little details. This darkness was different.He sat there, wondering where he was.Had he been drunk?Had he fallen asleep?Part One: Why Is It So Dark?http://undergodseyes.blogspot.com/20 05/08/bored-part-1.htmlPart Two: He Remembered Hearing His Voicehttp://undergodseyes.blogspot.com/20 05/09/bored-part-2-began-august-2005.html Part Three: What Was A Person?http://undergodseyes.blogspot.com/ 2005/11/bored-part-three-began-august-200 5.html
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Angel
2005-11-28 03:07:00
 
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