horrors2

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  1\chapauth{Part of Everything}
  2\chapter{The Death Hamsters}
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  8Luke Bavarious strolled calmly through the mall, one hand
  9absentmindedly stroking the cold metal of the trusty Baretta in his
 10pocket. ``I need a pet,'' he thought, and he made a beeline for the
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 15Suddenly a little boy sitting on a mall bench yelled out. ``Hey
 16mister! I don't think you should go in there,'' he hollered.
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 20Luke squinted at the boy and drew closer. ``Why not?'' he
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 25The boy looked all around and then whispered in a hoarse voice, ``I
 26saw a man go in there earlier. He looked insane. He had a bag full
 27of something lumpy. I didn't trust him. He came out without the
 28bag. Nobody has come out since.''
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 32Luke laughed. ``Balderdash,'' he chuckled, and strolled off towards
 33the pet store. The boy slumped in his seat with a frown.
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 37Luke walked in through the door and the door chime beeped to signal
 38that a person had entered. He looked around and there was no one
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 44He tried to decide what kind of pet to get. There were dozens of
 45animals. He looked at some fish and then sadly shook his head. ``Too
 46watery,'' he muttered to himself, and moved on. There were some
 47green lizards there. They stuck to the glass with their toes and he
 48was fascinated at this miracle of God. But he decided against it
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 54He saw puppies and kittens that were so cute that Luke choked back
 55a sob of joy. He had had a puppy when he was a little boy but one
 56day a burglar was running through his backyard where the puppy was
 57playing. The burglar was evil and the puppy was in his way. He
 58picked up the puppy and twisted it in half and then threw the
 59bottom half against Luke's window while he was sleeping. Luke woke
 60up screaming and barfed. He had never forgotten that day. He wiped
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 65He decided he wanted a hamster. They were so cute. The clerk had
 66not shown up yet and he began to wonder. He looked all around but
 67couldn't find her. Then he saw the door at the back was open a bit.
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 73The mangled corpse of the clerk was lying on the floor. There was
 74guts everywhere. She was covered with bloody hamsters. They were
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 80With shaking hands Luke drew his Baretta. He was ready to shoot but
 81then something soft landed on him. ``What the'' he said and looked
 82over his shoulder and he saw what he thought was a pom pom. But it
 83wasn't. It was a hamster. Then another one landed on his other
 84shoulder and 2 more on his head. Then they hissed and lunged.
 85``Hhh,'' Luke screamed as they ate his face.
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 89A superhuman strength came over him then and he flung all of them
 90off. He shot some but there were too many. He could hardly see
 91because his eyes were full of blood. He tripped over a bag of dog
 92food and then he got an idea. He pulled his lighter out of his
 93pocket and lit the bag of food. It went up in flames and blocked
 94the hamsters. The hamsters shrieked and burned. Luke took his
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 99The boy was waiting there, still on his bench. ``I told you,'' he
100yelled at Luke. ``Something was weird. You should have
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105Luke stumbled over to the boy. ``I'm so sorry,'' he choked. ``I should
106have respected you. Listened to you. I didn't because you're only
10710 years old. I was wrong.'' He pulled a chocolate bar out of his
108pocket and gave it to the boy. The boy looked at him with a big
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113By then the police were there. One of them pinned a medal on Luke's
114chest. ``You're a hero, son,'' he said in a deep voice with emotion.
115``There was an insane man who put evil hamsters in the store. He's
116in jail now. You stopped them from killing us all.''
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