horrors2

Sirocco.The_Monste.tex

 1\chapauth{Sirocco}
 2\chapter{The Monster of Lake Grim}
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 6I stepped out into the night. The clouds were dark and raining
 7shadows. The lake was calm. Dead fish rose to the surface. They
 8shone in the moonlight. I was here. Lake Grim.
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12I am Luke Bavarious. A detective from New York City. But I
13wasn't in New York City anymore. I was at Lake Grim.
14Investigating. My shoes squelched horrid vomit noises in the mud.
15When I heard the sounds I stopped. I looked around, in a sudden
16panic that threatened to overwhelm me. I fell forward and knelt in
17the mud and vomited on the ground. Some of it went on my hands but
18I didn't care. I was afraid. Reports from this area had
19reported strange vomitings in the lakeside town Grim which was next
20to Lake Grim. First you heard the vomit noise. And then you vomited
21yourself. Then the blood. And then{\ldots} you were never heard
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26I stepped up. I knew if I wasn't careful enough I would fall to the
27hands of the monster. If they were hands. That it had. The boy had
28warned me about this. I had been foolish not to listen. I looked around
29and restlessly put my hand near my Beretta. My {\em two} Berettas. The
30breeze drifted through the trees and made waves on the surface of the
31lake. My eyes scanned the lake.
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35``The monster must live in the lake,'' I said to
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40I walked down to the lake's shore and looked into the black,
41swirling water. I saw my reflection. I was about to look away when
42I felt the need to vomit rise from my stomach and into my mouth. I
43vomited into my reflection, again and again, blood and saliva came
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48``This is horrid!'' I gasped, in between vomits.
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52A dark, black shape broke the surface of the lake. The monster of
53Lake Grim had decided to show its face. I needed to act fast before
54it was too late. I leapt back and pulled both Berettas out and
55fired them at the shape but it kept on coming. Shells hit the
56ground and got stuck in the mud. I tried to reload but the need to
57vomit and the fear made my hands too shaky. I dropped the shells
58and backed away from the monster.
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62``My weapons are useless!'' I cried. I tried to swing my
63fist but my vision was blurry from salty tears of pain and fear and
64horror. And I missed. I fell back on to my face and broke my nose.
65Blood splattered everywhere on the ground like a rose trampled
66underfoot. Then I vomited into the blood. And then I sneezed. I
67turned over and looked up at the starlit sky. The night sky turned
68black. The monster was looming over me, ready to do its evil
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73``Kill me! Just kill me now!'' I gargled, trying to speak
74through a mixture of vomit, blood, boogers, and pus from where the
75blood came from. ``Kill me!''
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79It stopped. Then it walked away, leaving me in the mud and the
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