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Show chose r “WASATCH COUNTY. COURIER — ~ October. 26, DP. EF SE Of course. there was a big. investigation, ~ house. Every day we ‘got: a tittle braver. a missing body and all. ah e doctor and: Wes started :stopping, in. front of his house I had to tell the story. to so many police, = to try and see. him. “Nobody would join A man stood outside in front of a garage and turned to hear her heavy breathing. She struggled for breath to tell her is, as we ours we were petting more so many times. It ended up being an -would-be-rescuer of her troubles. He unsolved case, I think the town thought — and | more foolish. | grabbed her by the-shoulders in a comthe two of us were crazy. The doctor: - . It was October 2th, a oe ee igh forting & way,Way “What’s goin 8 on?” . went back to his practice in the city. I when Bud and I decided to go up and Kara attempted, uselessly, to = Tears never saw him again. I think he wanted | ting ‘his doorbell. It seemed like it. took ° streamed down her face. Worry still to keep things quiet so as to not disturb _ an hour: to walk up to his door, and tugged at her thoughts. She turned slowhis reputation; he didn’t do poles: - then, Bud did the thing we swore we ly to see if the white man had continued would never do, he rang Cabalucci’s ner. I blurted out a long string of ques--- wrong, it just all sounded so weird. to follow. her. doorbell. 1 could not believe it, ‘T was A few. weeks later we admitted a patient tions. “How long have you been here, No one was. standing there, only - ithe | why didn’t you ring, what can I do for — to the hospital. Louisa was well known | — frozen with fear. Then came the smell, 7 trees of the orchard were to be seen. and we knew that Cabalucci was near. throughout the town and in our hospiyou tonight,is your child sick?” The silence and emptiness of the place — We turned to run, but there, behind us tal; 98 years old, congestive heart. fail“He fell, please help him,” she said and seemed to scream out in terror to Kara. ure, time for her to pass on. In the mid- | was Cabalucci blocking our way. His _ then looked away. I turned to the child. dle of the night her call light came on — breath was like an open sewer, his bro- . She turned to this new man and said, He was pale, his eyes were closed and | _“There’s, uh- a man that was following so I went in to her. “ I want to talk to... ken teeth were. dripping fluids, his face didn’t see any movement of his chest,. 1 me. Uh- my brother - he - uh - he’s - you, to put your mind at ease before: bs: | would have taken‘ a ‘Hollywood makeup yelled for the doctor. He was from out of gone. I think that guy - uh- did some- =,” -die.” she said. “Mary | Carlisle. is my . = arse three hours to produce. I did the town, just substituting for the night. He _ thing. Oh gosh- no, it can’t be.” ‘neighbor and she has mentioned to me -~ only thing 1 could do. 1 grabbed Bud's was sleeping in the room across the hall. that she feels a presence in her house ~~ shoulder, and. pushed his as. hard Basic). ~ “Whoa, slow down.” We started the normal trauma resuscita-and yard. She didn’t seem uneasy about could into” Cabalucci’s arms yelling : tion. After the breathing tube’ was in | After. gaining ‘her wits, aed finally it but just wanted to know if I knew any = “Cabalucci, This Bud's for eee re ~ remember the doctor commenting on explained what had happened. history on the old place. I didn’t remiemhow easily the air flowed into his lungs “Let me get something to fight that guy ber until this night; please go to her and — from the bag, unnatural really, like the off with and we'll go lookin’ for your tell her. I used to live on Old River _ lung tissue wasn’t even there. Looking brother,” Paul - that was the name of Road. Two houses down was a lovely — back I remember that when I started the the man:said.: 7 young couple witha beautiful blue eyed UVSC Creative Writing Class IV no blood flowed out. At the time | | boy. The woman. loved her child- more He walked into the garage and peed | thought it was because he had so much. than anything. Every time I walked past — Ghastly Groups — a tire-iron. Kara followed Paul into the intemal bleeding. there was not much her house on the way to school I would. orchard, in search of her brother. Paul “Damn it,’ ’ exclaimed Kara as the engine left in the extremities. | know why now. -see her with. the boy;. feeding the chickwalked cautiously, scanning all sides as came to a screeching halt. She managed After what seemed like only seconds but ens, swinging in the tree or picking he stepped from row to TOW v_ of apple. to maneuver the small Metro to the side was the appropriate amount of time I am flowers. When he was 2 he fell-down a ~ trees. * * | of the road, before it oes sure, the doctor said to stop, it was no. well’ and died. They couldn’t get his stopped. — | Suddenly the os man ea direct-. use. Time of death 12: 03. body otit you sée, but. they knew he was | Paul said, Oe, ly in front of Paul. “What happened?” cried Thomas, Kara’s He tamed to the mother and said, “I’m — dead. The mother was heart broken. Her ~ _ ten-year old brother. | Damien, you've been up to your old sorry, we couldn’t save him.” ” He acted marriage broke up and she drank herself ~ tricks again, eh?” A hideous grin shad- — like he wanted to say more, to comfort to death within T year. No one lived Otte ay dunno,” sighed Kara, “Why dass this é owed Paul’s face. He seemed to ie joy -have to happen at night, and in the her or explain but she started wailing | that property. until: the Carlisles bought : in the confrontation. | like I have never heard. He turned to it last year. When the. Carlisle boy, died, - - middle of no where?” Damien. stabbed at. Paul. wails be me and said) “You’re: probably better at 1 guess... os “She stopped talking. “ lease | “T saw ‘a store” ‘back a-little ways,’ ’ said pruners. Paul sidestepped the thrust and this sort of thing and besides, | don’t - tell me “more,” L begged, but she was Thomas. came down on. Damien’s . left. shoulder. know the routine with deceased patients sleeping and | ‘couldn’ t arouse: her. The “Let’s take afeperedt’ Aick here,” said in this hospital. Take care of it and call with. the tire iron. Damien choked in next day she died. , ‘Kara, as she led Thomas through a small me if you have problems.” He went back pain. So, although others thought I was crazy, strand of apple trees. ‘in his room. - Damien once again came at. Paul, this Louisa knew. I went to Mary Carlisle’s As they weaved through the clusters Ce I wanted to find out what exactly hap: - house the next day and related what time with success. He connected with - apple trees, Thomas rattled off question pened to the child that night but the - happened with Louisa. She was tearful Paul’s. abdomen. Blood. oozed. out, as after question. Kara jumped at the - woman was sobbing and clutching him. of course, with: the recent death of her Paul’s face grew dark. | unending mesh of dark shadows. | decided to give her time alone so | the child, but she simply said,‘ ‘T think ink t A more tremendous amount “of noe 7 “Apples,” proclaimed Thomas, running woman you saw at the hospital is finally said, “Spend a few minutes with your seemed to engulf Paul. He swung the toward a nearby apple tree. at peace, I don’t feel anything here anychild aus I need you to fill out these tire iron wildly, connecting with papers.’ ’ She nodded and I went out to © more. Somehow, my child and her’s are “Thomas c’mon,” -returned jiee press- 7 Damien’s face on nearly every stroke. ‘the nurses station to call the mortuary. — connected in the next life.” The ing on. Damien fell back from the onslaught. Carlisles moved away shortly after that. - When I returned they weren’t in the Thomas continued in his pursuit of an Blood streamed from all parts of his face. room but | could see through the glass U nfa mili ( a t ———— " - Fates: So, that’s my story; I cared for a ghost in door that the woman was carrying the . the ER. Maybe if I helped a mother to child across the parking lot to the waitbe at peace with her son’s death and her ing hearse. This wasn’t normal proceown it is worth so many ee nes dure but I figured the mortician couldn't for me. bear to tear the child from his mother, as I couldn't earlier. The hearse drove “away. : I went back in to file my charts for the night. As I looked over the paperwork | realized that the woman had filled out 12 Old River Road as the address and 1906 as the year of the patient’s birth. | flipped through the rest of the charts. 12. Old River Road was the address of the Carlisle boy, the one _ down the who had fallen well. I couldn’t blame her for making mistakes on the paperwork at a time like this but wanting to get it cleared up I called over to the mortuary © to see if she was still there. The morti- cian answered the phone, “I was just going back to bed,” he said. “I came to_ the ER but there was no patient. | wait- -ed for awhile then went: home.” ” I argued with him that I saw them walking - towards his vehicle. “Did you see them get in?” He asked. “Well no.” “I don’t know what you're talking about” he said and ‘hung up. Mr. Capatucci after it became when suddenly a light-colored down one of the orchard rows caught attention. As she focused on the never saw him cut his lawn, but the lawn was always short. We never saw him shop, we never saw the drapes open in his house, but he knew ~ he was in there. eae of the smell. They say that your memory is best when connected by smell. Fifteen years later when | catch the smell of a mutilated carcass on the side of the road, it still brings back horrible memories. Walking home from school we learned to cross the street just before his house then cross backto the other side as fast as we could. ‘When I was growing up, Cabalucci was | the only thing we never joked about. It all happened when my best friend Russ, The phone rang, it was the-trauma cen- — who everybody called Bud, and I decided to do what no one had ever done ter. They thought I-would want to know: she . “Thomas,” she. screeched. When turned, though, Thomas was no where to be found: She shouted several times for Thomas, but to no avail. She began to run for the store. As she ran she turned only momentarily, and to her surprise she saw the white man come after her. through the Her heart pounded with fear Pees, crawled at. the - thought of her assailant. She emerged from the trees, feeling that lay in front of her. Paul had completely crushed Damien’s skull. ; ~ didn’t know what to say or how to react. A flash passed before her eyes. That was the last she knew. Paul began beatingher head relentlessly with the tire iron. The sound of something being a brought Paul-around. He turned and saw a dirty man dragging a young boy ue blood stained clothes. “So it was you that got that little son-of.a-bitch,” remarked Paul. | a “Yep,” answered the dee man, tna it’sabout time we got rid of that albino fag- _ thoughts of her brother flying through her mind. A sense of horror -from her head to her toes. even Kara continued to stare at the crushed sight on the ground. She was silent. She His image was burned upon Kara’s mind. He was whiter than any man she — - ever seen before. 3 continued | your brother.” Her eyes caught his for a few aes He turned casually to his left and disappeared as quickly as he had appeared. She with his attack, apparent that Damien Paul turned: to Kara, “Now we can find ing pruners. We never saw Cabalucci come outside continued could no longer retaliate. | ‘Kara stared in shock at ihe iubgody mess - object object, she realized it was a man carry- Ghastly Groups ~ We knew he was in there Paul Kara found herself srowing angry. with Thomas. She turned to call for him her By Alex Fishler of his house. We apple, beginning to climb a tall tree. a» ~ quick flutter of relief. She ran to the eam ” “Yeah. He got me before I| finished ‘im though,” Paul said, pointing to the blood stains on his shirt. “Well, let’s start up the fire, and call up ever’one else. Let ‘em know we got some good fixins for the barbecue.” Z | | minutes left until my shift ended at midnight. I watched. the clock, checked on my few sleeping patients and picked up ~my purse. As I walked past the little ER T noticed I’d left'a light on. | went in; a child was lying still on the stretcher. | - spun around and saw a women dressed in white sitting on the chair in the cor-_ | store, her mind fixed wee her avenue of before. We didn’t ties the street, but crossed. ight in” front of| ‘Cabalucci’s © escape. | | copter had passed away at 12°03. lee teen ICT ICT ee But this was several hours ago and . never let myself think about sad things — at work until the drive home. Only 15 Shai chile tae we flew ‘out’on. the cu ek ene. TOIT CREEPY STORIES continued from page 18 - a ronan eae |