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I take a bold stand in favor of slacking off...
2008-07-05 13:29:00
Hey, middle managers and bosses and other supervisory-type people: you're always trying to get your people to stop using the Internet on company time, aren't you? Because you think it dampens their productivity, don't you?I think maybe you need to step back and look at the big picture. Let your folks surf the 'Net a bit here and there and not only will they be happier workers (because they will get to read my stories) but they, and you will be more productive.How? Because by letting them surf the Internet, they can find things like the ZM400-2001-0000T barcode printer. Barcodes can help your business become more productive by speeding inventory, tracking packages, and otherwise helping you keep the information and goods flowing quickly and efficiently.But you'd never know that barcode readers and printers were for sale... right now... at Barcode Discount... unless one of your loyal employees had taken a break and read this. So get a barcode reader, and take that employee to l...
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Rage (Part Twelve): Heart
2008-07-03 19:26:00
She did not want to think it because it was her escape but in not thinking about it she thought about it and of course he picked it up.?Your? heart?? He cocked his head at her. ?Your heart is ? dying, isn?t it? That?s what you think?? He paused, moved his head slowly side to side. His eyes, one at a time peered at her. His ear, especially his left ear, appeared to move, to wiggle a little, to clench up. ?Yes. Yes. I hear it. I hear it.? In her ears, rushing and thumping more and more and she felt a sharp stabbing pain in her left arm, felt tears well in her eye, felt grateful and said in her mind Thank you dear Lord but almost as soon as she thought it she felt a cold, rocky grasp on her forehead, her head pushed back and it hurt and it clenched her and at the same time she felt a contraction in her chest, her entire heart pulled into itself and stopped beating?And a thump! resounded in her mind just before she moved on, just before her mind left her body, the thump emanating out fr...
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We also like to go black tie for the playoffs.
2008-07-03 19:16:00
Formal wear season is year-round. Which means that fancy dresses are needed year-round, too. From fancy New Year's parties to anniversaries in the spring to prom to weddings to the opening of football season (well, in our house, at least), women will find themselves in constant need of a beautiful new dress to wear for the occasion, and men will find themselves in constant need of not spending the entire day at a dress shop, and also not spending a lot of money.Elegant Mart helps everyone in that scenario. With a few clicks, women can shop for all the fancy formal wear they want: evening dresses, prom dresses, things to wear to weddings, it's all there. And the men can sit at the table reading Sports Illustrated and pretending to look when their wives tell them to look. When the time comes to pay, men, you'll be happy, too, because Elegant Mart's prices are great.Dress up more and less: More dresses, more ease, less expensive.
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Rage (Part Eleven:) Sleep.
2008-07-02 15:04:00
He kept repeating you let them take me and instead of getting louder, he got quieter and quieter, until he was swallowing the words, and when they had become a subvocal rumble, when she almost could not tell he was making a sound at all, he suddenly bit into her ear and it felt like he pulled it right off and she wanted to black out again and almost did but he took his hand and thumped her on the stomach as he bit her ear and the breath, what little breath she?d recovered, was driven from her again, and she did not pass out, she felt the blood flowing down her head from her ear and pooling near her neck and shoulder.He stood up and he was moving his mouth but she could not hear him, realized that she was shrieking in pain and her ear was gone, but he moved around, passing briefly from her sight and then he was on her right side again, still talking:?? plenty of time and you?re not going to be asleep for any of it. No. I wasn?t. I went years without sleeping. Years. You don?t believe...
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If you would like to date Oldest, you have to check with me, first.
2008-07-02 13:37:00
Oldest brought over her new boyfriend to meet the family the other night. She'd been single for a while after her disastrous last boyfriend, who nobody (including her) liked.This new guy seems okay. A little quiet, but polite. I'm withholding judgment until I get to know him better. I don't want to down him yet, but I don't want to say he's okay and then he turns out to be a member of Al Qaeda or something.Oldest met him through work; they both work at the same hospital. That's probably the way most people in the past have met their significant others. But for those who work in a place where there's less chance of meeting someone -- a small office, say, or a nunnery -- there's always internet dating sites to check out.The ads are all over TV, radio, and the Web. It seems there's a dating site for every group, every taste. Whatever your age, religion, preference, or interests, there's a site that claims it'll find you the perfect match.Can they all do that? I doubt i...
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Instinct.
2008-07-01 21:26:00
She could see his spine. Not his bones jutting up, creating bumps on the skin, not the you?re-so-skinny-I can-see-your-spine type of view. She could see the ends of the bones of the spine actually sticking through his skin (skin? Was it skin?) and jutting out, throwbacks to a time when animals ruled the earth and wore their skeletons on the outside.He didn?t notice or didn?t care. He took a few paces and looked at the wall. He looked down at the nightstand where her glasses and a glass of water sat.He picked up the glasses and looked through them. He threw them on the ground and stomped on them.?Not just physical pain,? he growled. ?Mental pain, too.? He looked over his shoulder at her, the left shoulder that was twisted and wasted. She realized that his left hand hung the wrong way, pointing out when it should point in as in hung there. She realized that two of his fingers were grafted together or had grown together. ?I think they feed off of it,? he said. ?I think they get their e...

Now I'm still old and cranky but nice and cool, too.
2008-07-01 21:15:00
As we get deeper and deeper into summer, you are going to more and more want an Air Conditioner to make sure that you can relax and enjoy yourself.I used to be opposed to air conditioners myself. Then I got old and cranky and thought "Why should I be sweating just sitting around here in my house?" Why indeed, when a good ol' split-system air conditioner can fix that?A "split system" air conditioner is one that separates out the 'hot' side of the AC from the 'cold side' -- which means less noise in your house, because the 'hot' part is the part that makes almost all the noise in an air conditioner, and the 'hot part' in the split system is the part that sits outside.So if you're reading this while sweat is dripping down the bridge of your nose and onto your keyboard, give it up and get an air conditioner today.
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Thinking The Lions, The Bad Touch, and other stuff...
2008-07-01 18:19:00
When you're all caught up on the stories here, and waiting for the next installment of pure terror, why not take a break and read some of my other work? You could read Thinking The Lions find out how my vacation to Orlando went -- and answer the question about whether airport security allows Oreos or not. Or maybe you'd rather give some thought to how civilization collapsed because of Prince and George Michael, and how we can't rebuild it because of "The Bad Touch ." Want to know what all that means? Read The Best of Everything. Can Denver Broncos fans read? I'm not so sure. Nonsportsmanlike Conduct! investigates and counts down to football season.
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Summer's here, and the time is right to start fitting into those jeans.
2008-07-01 18:10:00
Like that? I fit in a little reference to an oldies' song there while also making sure that you understand that it's time to begin losing all that weight that you put on during your vacation.Okay, making sure I understand that I lose all that weight I put on during my vacation.Vacations are made for letting go, and I took advantage of that. Ice cream for dessert and a shake? Sure. Pizza buffet? Don't mind if I do. By the end of the five days in Florida, it took two bottles of sunscreen to cover me.Now, I'm back in the real world of "work" and I need to slim back down, so I need some healthy tips on how to easily lose weight. Which I can get at Weight Loss Diet Help -- a website that compares weight loss programs and diet plans for me so that I can choose the one that will best return me to my pre-vacation form.Weight Loss Diet Help has information on Nutrisystem, Medifast, Weight Waters, eDiets, and more. They've also got articles on how to make sure that I exercise instead o...
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Rage Part Nine: Pain
2008-07-01 17:40:00
He laughed more.He finally stopped crushing her hand. She lay on the bed, eyes closed and trying to open them before he attacked her again, it didn?t matter, there were too many tears in her eyes to see him so she might as well keep them open. Her breath came in gasps, spurts of breath, too much air going out and not enough back in and she could not reverse that or slow it down, her head was spinning and tears flowed down out of her eyes, and she felt her heart thumping, and a stronger person would have marveled at her body?s ability to keep sending her all these different signals and sorting them out: the heart pounding, short of breath, shoulder dislocated, hand crushed, head still hurt.All interrupted when it ? he ? leaned forward and looked at her so closely she could see through the flood of tears in her eyes, she could see his face and thought it was distorted by the liquid but it was the face.?I don?t remember the first thing they did to me,? he told her. He whispered it. ?Ho...
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Neat Stuff -- And I'm Not Horsing Around! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) (And
2008-07-01 17:31:00
I see from the news today that more and more people are taking to horseback riding as an alternative to paying high gas prices (or maybe a protest to paying high gas prices?)Those people, along with any other horse owners, and all cowboys, are going to need Horse Accessories to go along with their lifestyle. No self-respecting horse owner can ride around without the accoutrements (oooh, fancy word!) necessary to show how much he or she loves horses.Accessories Unleashed is there for you. They've got all the gear you could ever want to show how much you love your horse. Personalized towels and bags with your horse's picture on it? Got 'em. Earrings or zipper chain in the shape of a horse? Check. Protest gas prices in style and show your horse how much you appreciate it, while making a bold fashion statement of your own!
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Mind.
2008-06-24 08:58:00
Rage Part Six: FaceAnd Rage Part Seven: Mind posted today!Page down past the ads or click the link you want.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: Rage:He was taken from her before he was born.Now he's come back, and he wants her to know what she missed.The Thing In The Basement:All Jude wanted was to give his family a good life. But what The Thing In The Basement gives, it can take away. The Deal: Little Jake is tormented nightly by a demon, and his parents won't help. His brother might, but his brother is gone.I could do it:I could Do ItbybrianefpGet this custom shirtat Zazzle

Yes! I can now slack off with 100% more efficiency!
2008-06-24 08:14:00
Woo Hoo! My job just got a billion times easier.My day job, as many of you know, is being a lawyer. When I'm not blogging, I sit in my office and I sue people. Suing people is not the glamorous, crazy, dramatic world that you'd picture if you've watched Law & Order or Tom Cruise's life. It's mostly a lot of paperwork. A lawyer's life boils down to piles and piles of paper, in folders and envelopes and boxes and on my desk and on every other lawyer's desk, too.Those papers are legal forms. They range, in my practice, from complaints (the document that gets a lawsuit going) to answers (the document that keeps it going) to settlement forms and releases (the forms that end lawsuits and result in my clients getting lots and lots of money) to the hundreds of spinoff documents that are created in a busy law practice: deeds, security agreements, promissory notes, leases, marital property agreements, and more.Lots of my time is, as a result of that, creating and modifying document...
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Rage (Seven): Mind
2008-06-24 06:56:00
She gasped with the pain. Her throat gurgled with dry screams.?I will continue to do that, and it will get worse. I?ve learned a lot, mother.? It continued to spit out that word. Eva wished it would go away. As she thought that, it cocked its head. ?You call me it.? She stared at it. ?You do.? How could it know that, she wondered. It loomed closer to her, pulled her tongue a little further out. ?Think of me as your son. Call me son. In your mind.? She could not do that.It yanked on her tongue, so hard she thought it had pulled the tongue right out of her throat. She screamed. ?Think of me as your SON!? it yelled. It continued to hold her tongue out to its fullest length. Desperately, she thought to herself you are my son.It let go of her tongue. She could not pull her tongue back in and it lolled out of her mouth. ?That?s better,? it ? he?said. It pulled back a little, and she was (sadly) able to see more of it ? him she quickly corrected her thoughts ? and she did not want to but s...
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I'm maybe 230, tops!
2008-06-23 20:45:00
It must be nice to be a nurse. Aside from the whole "having to work insanely long hours" and "being underappreciated vital cogs in the health-care machine" and "dealing with sick, crabby, cranky people all day" and "listening to patients who claim that the scale has got to be off because there's no way they weigh that much" things... aside from those, nurses have got it made.I say that because nurses get paid a lot of money -- yes, they very much deserve it; my Mom and sister-in-law are nurses and they deserve much much more money than they're being paid-- and they're in demand in a way that horror writers/lawyes never will be, and, now, they have people finding awesome jobs for them.American Traveler will do that for any travel nurse who's qualified. They'll find a job for a travel nurse. As the recognized leader in placement for travel nursing professionals, American Traveler can place nurses in the most prestigious of hospitals. They also provide generous salaries, and bon...
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Rage (Six): Face
2008-06-23 13:03:00
?You did, you did, you did? it was howling now ?You knew what they were and you did not save me and you did not even try and now, mother, LOOK!?The lights came on and were so bright, so sudden, that tears sprang to her eyes and she clamped her lids shut involuntarily, gasping, but not before the sight that loomed over her burned into her retinas. It would never leave her memory after that. The face ? face? Was it? -- that had been hanging over her had been so terrible that it registered in her like an electric shock, like touching a live wire and knowing in the microsecond before you jerk back that you?ve done something wrong and dangerous.?OPEN YOUR EYES!? It howled again. She could not. She kept them closed and wished that she would die rather than see that face again, but it was there in her vision even with the eyes closed.It was wider than a normal face, at least one and one-half times as wide. And it was not symmetrical. The left eye sat nearly down at the jaw line, while the ...
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I'm going to make a million dollars and all I need is the right Halloween c
2008-06-23 12:44:00
And a website that is among the best purveyors of kids Halloween costumes is going to help me.Here's how: The world is breathlessly awaiting the first pictures of a couple of celebrity babies -- Jamie Lynn's, and Brangelina's. And those pictures are worth billions. Literally. If you have a picture of Jamie Lynn's baby, you can exchange it for a pile of money as big as Connecticut.Photos of the Brangeltwins can be exchanged, as I understand it, for Connecticut itself.So here's my plan: What person is universally welcomed at celebrity births? Well, right, the doctor, but then I'd have to get my hands messy. No, the one person above any other who is welcome anywhere celebrities are partying, getting awards, or having babies, is Ryan Seacrest.So all I've got to do is go over to The Costume Cauldron and get myself a Ryan Seacrest costume, put it on, sneak on down to Spearsville or wherever they live, and snap a few photos. From there, I can follow the thundering herds of paparazzi...
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Rage (Five) Look.
2008-06-23 06:46:00
The voice was right next to her ear. She whimpered?You remember, don?t you, mother?? the last word was hissed at her. ?You remember me, don?t you, you remember the last time you saw me??She closed her eyes, twisted them into the eyelid equivalent of fists. Her eyes would not look at the memories that phrase called up in her mind. She sobbed into the gag, a word that would have been ?no? and would have been a lie.The voice understood what she said, what she wanted to say, what she wanted to believe.?Don?t say no. You remember. I know you do because I remember it.? The voice paused long enough for her skin to stop crawling, then went on. ?Not that I saw it, but because they told me. They told me, each and every day of my life.?Eva was trying not to choke on the gorge that rose in her throat the more the voice talked. How could anything sound so repulsive? She felt like the voice was coating her in muck and slime. The voice paused again, this time so long that she was able to swallow, ...
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I... see. (Or should that be "eye... see"? I am AWESOME!)
2008-06-23 06:33:00
Here are a couple of good reasons to wear glasses:1. Jack Black's character wore them in Be Kind, Rewind, and that movie was actually okay.2. Harry Potter! Wait... can I say that? Let's go with LARRY LOTTER!3. So that when you are sitting at your desk and someone comes in and says "There are hordes of demons coming over the horizon hellbent on eating people's souls," you can take them off slowly, chew on the earpiece, and say: "I ... see."That move is a classic.Also, another good reason to wear glasses is because they help you see. Can't forget that. And another-er good reason to wear glasses is because you can get them for as low as $15 if you order them through Optical4Less.com. You can get great prescription rx eyeglasses at Optical4Less.com, like the pair shown here-- the actual pair I would wear if I either (a) I wore alloy prescription eyeglasses or (b) there were hordes of demons coming over the hill, etc., etc., and I needed some time to ponder my options.They'll even s...
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Rage (Four): Hello
2008-06-23 06:30:00
She pulled at her feet and felt the same scratchy burning tug around them. She was tied into her bed.Involuntarily she screamed, a scream that started in her belly and rose through her lungs to her throat, burning her vocal cords with its ferocity and strength, a scream that bolted forth from her core only to meet the gag and end up a muffled whimper. Her throat was already sore and she had barely heard the scream herself. She knew it had not left the room, this room that the light had left but nothing else would right now.She rested and tried to swallow, to restore her throat. She knew as soon as she could she would scream again, despite it being useless with the gag in. She knew that because her muscles were doing these things on her own as her mind watched them and fretted. Her stomach was clenching up in anticipation of forcing out another scream. Her arms pulled at their restraints, rubbing her wrists raw, her legs buckled and pulled, and she writhed on the bed, and the whole t...
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It's hard to see how a popsicle-stick printer would fit into a horror story
2008-06-22 19:09:00
I do an awful lot of writing. An awful lot. Although I should probably find a better adjective to express that. Adjective? Adverb? What part of speech, exactly, is "awful" in that sentence. I'm going to go with adjective.So I need to find a better adjective. I need to think of some better way to put that. How about "I do a terrific amount of writing." That sounds a lot better, doesn't it?You can gather, from all that, that a writer's craft is not the easiest thing in the world-- but if you gathered that, you'd be wrong. Writing is easy. It's easy peasy rice & cheesy. I've got the ideas, I know how to type, I'm awesome at putting the ideas into words for me to type, and that's everything. I can't stand hearing about how writing is so hard, all these writers going oh, I suffer for my craft, oh, it's so hard, oh, I have to force myself to write.Writing is a piece of cake. People that complain about getting to be writers for a living are jerks. In fact, the o...
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Rage (Three): Bound
2008-06-22 07:51:00
Eva did not sleep well at night, ever. She tossed and turned and suffered from insomnia.She was never sure, on those nights, what woke her up. Whether it was her age, or her mind, or the bed that was lumpy and got older and older and had never been replaced in twenty years.Sometimes she felt as though she was woken by someone caressing her head. Sometimes it was as though someone had climbed into bed with her. Sometimes she woke up and would have sworn on the hundreds of bibles that she had stockpiled since that night, buying them compulsively and carrying one with her at all times, would have sworn that someone had whispered mother just before she woke up.She was wrong every one of those nights. It was never any of those things, but merely her memory bothering her, her mind replaying the night and those things and her heart crying out for her baby, the baby they had never found. And each of those nights that she awoke, each of those nights that she thought that someone had touched ...
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Rage (Two): Stolen
2008-06-22 07:46:00
Shapes.She stood there. She stared at the shapes. Two were directly behind her. One was off to her left. One was off to her right. She looked over her shoulder, the direction she?d been headed. She could not see anything there, but the light faded and it was a long way to the next street lamp. She was two blocks from her apartment building. She was five blocks from the grocers. She looked around. There were no lights on in the windows of the buildings near her. She saw no glow of a television being watched quietly, no warm yellow gleam of an overhead kitchen lamp inviting her to call out to an elderly neighbor doing a word search puzzle before bed.The shapes were like men, almost, but with strange outcroppings, odd appurtenances. They hunched or leaned. They did not move or talk and she could not make out features in the mist; they stood just outside of the range of the streetlight.The pain in her back and stomach subsided. She looked from one shape to the other and wondered what to...
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Go with the SPF 50, I'd say.
2008-06-21 21:11:00
In a few days, we're leaving on our vacation to Florida, and I'm taking the laptop with me because you never know when you'll want to do a little 'puting (that's short for computing, which means working on a computer...) like maybe write a little more of my novel, or work on editing my short story collection.In the past that would have meant I had to also lug along the "E" drive that I had to add back when my collection of songs grew to over 7,000, since my laptop has about as much memory for my songs as The Boy does for his chores (ba dum bum!); I had to add an external hard drive a while back to hold all that, because the little memory the computer did have was taken up with games and the 1080 pictures of the Babies!I don't have to do that in this case, though-- I can simply use my files stored at the Online Backup I get through IBackup. IBackup provides online storage and backup for your files; they have interactive backups, scheduled online backups and more features.You c...

RAGE! starts today!
2008-06-20 09:01:00
He was taken from her before he was even born. Now he's come back. And he wants her to know what she's missed.RAGE starts today! Read part one: Shapes, here.Page down past the ads or click the link you want.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: Rage :He was taken from her before he was born.Now he's come back, and he wants her to know what she missed. The Thing In The Basement:All Jude wanted was to give his family a good life. But what The Thing In The Basement gives, it can take away. The Deal: Little Jake is tormented nightly by a demon, and his parents won't help. His brother might, but his brother is gone.I could do it: I could Do It by brianefp Get this custom shirt at ZazzleI could do it: I could Do It by brianefp Get this custom shirt at Za...
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Rage: Part One: Shapes.
2008-06-20 08:56:00
They moved with an aching, grating gait that sounded to normal ears like moldy gravel scraping down a culvert.They moved slowly.They moved oddly, suddenly lurching in one direction or another.They moved always in oblique curves, never directly forward or sideways.That they moved at all was the second most frightening thing about them, to Eva.The first most frightening thing was that they took her baby.It had been quiet that night. Quiet, and misty. But still. The mist did not fall, or blow. It hung in the air, a curtain of water through which Eva had to continually pass, the light reflecting at unusual angles off the billions of tiny water droplets that hung in her way, the shadows more liquid than usual, the edges of everything blurred a little and blending into each other. Brick into air, water into ground, light into dark: there were no sharp edges that night.Eva had been nine months pregnant. She was ready to give birth at any time and should not have been out. But she had neede...
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Rage: Table of Contents
2008-06-20 08:54:00
He was taken from her before he was even born.He's come back.He wants her to know what she missed.One: Shapes.Two: Stolen.Three: BoundFour: Hello.Five: Look.Six: FaceSeven: Mind
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That's an order, soldier!
2008-06-20 08:42:00
We just had to order new ink for our home printer; as a part-time free-lance writer with kids in high school, we do a lot of printing. So I went to the website of the place where we bought our printer, and was going to order some ink, when I looked at the prices. I would have been better off printing with gasoline mixed with wine than buying the ink from that place. I didn't want to just get in the car and go driving off to some computer or electronics store and hope they had the ink I wanted, either; who wants that kind of trouble? Al Gore invented the internet just so that we would never have to leave our houses for anything and that way we'd spare the environment, and I support that goal.I turned to InkjetDeals for help. InkjetDeals is a website that offers coupons and information about online stores selling ink and toner; here's the kicker, though: the stores they promote and the coupons they use can get you up to 80% off retail pricing. 80% off. That's phenomenal.Th...
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Not that it matters.
2008-06-19 09:23:00
The conclusion to "The Thing In The Basement" posted today!Coming soon: RAGE -- a never before published story!Page down past the ads or click the link you want.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 Thing In The Basement:All Jude wanted was to give his family a good life. But what The Thing In The Basement gives, it can take away. 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.Make out: The Make Out Shirt by brianefp Get this custom shirt at ZazzleWant a free t-shirt? Of course you do. Click there to find out how you can get one courtesy of The Best of Everything: ...
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The Thing In The Basement: Conclusion.
2008-06-19 09:20:00
And as I died, I felt something pulling, tugging, dragging at me. I actually felt my soul leave my body. I always thought that would be peaceful, although in this case I didn't expect that too much because I had killed my wife and daughter and was going to Hell, but the Thing had not gotten me, at least.I was sucked out of my body, out of the car, through the house, like a handkerchief through a magician's hand.Into the basement. I was thrown, sucked, tossed into the basement, with all those spirits.I landed in the middle, with those other souls lurching and tumbling around me. People who'd hung themselves in the house with ropes still around their neck in the afterworld. One guy who'd slit his wrists, pale and limp and dragging himself by his elbows with his hands flapping uselessly. All milling around and looking at me, some with a little more vitality than others.I looked around and around, bewildered. We all do, when we first get here. It took me a few moments to realize, an...
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