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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #323 Coming to a T in the road, Jude turned left on 414 and headed north as Cale lay slumped and dreaming. A familiar room came into focus. He held the...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #324 After slurping the last reachable drops from his second pouch, Cale caught his breath in a playful exaggeration that children like to do. He gasped for...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #325 “Well,” she said, thinking of how to phrase the answer. “There’s a cold storage room on one of the lower levels.” Cale fired off another question while...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #326 “Where does he get them from?” “People, outside the community,” his mother said with a meek smile. “They donate their blood to us.” Cale’s curiosity...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #327 “Without their help,” Cale said slowly, forming the thought as he spoke, “we wouldn’t have food.” She nodded. “And it’s important to be thankful for...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #328 “They don’t think the way we do. They don’t care about others and act only for themselves. They want to steal blood because it’s different than the...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #329 “Well, once you start consuming… drinking blood with those harmful elements, it makes you want more and more until the need drives you insane… that...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #330 “Yes, there are some here that crave active blood. And there are some out in the world as well, but don’t worry, Honey.” She reached out and caressed...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #336 Hands gripped Cale’s shoulders and pulled him away from the corpse. At first, he struggled, gnashing his elongated teeth and lashing out for more, but...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #337 Small clumps of flesh freckled his blood-smeared face. Jude watched as the shine in the boy’s eyes dimmed from vampire within to morally confused...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #338 Cale wiped a hand across his mouth and looked down at the result. His brow creased and tears formed in his eyes without spilling over. After a long...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #339 Cale clutched his head, trying to stop the world from spinning. He made an attempt to stand but the hot ache in his stomach rose fast. Cale whirled to...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #340 “Meant to?” Cale snapped. “I was meant to kill? And they just sat there and willingly let me tear out their throats?” “Yes and no,” Jude said, replying...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #341 Jude saw the boy’s tension began to ease, the anger diffusing little by little. “We were meant to feed on living beings—to consume warm, active...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #342 “Their rights?” Jude replied. “My boy, they have a choice. These two wonderful beings made theirs. And you have a choice too. You can choose whom you...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #343 He sat in the moonlight, still and silent, digesting the philosophy that had saved his life multiple times in the past few days. Most of his memories...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #344 Cale nodded and filled his lungs. He closed his eyes to savor the sanguine tint in the air and the overall sensation of contentment. Besides the weak...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #345 “I will feed from the active, the ones that offer it, but only when blood bags aren’t available.” “Okay.” Jude nodded and stretched out a hand to help...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #346 “Should we bury them?” Cale asked. “That was their wish,” Jude said, “right here. This is where they got married back in 1934; gave their vows in the...
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Interactive Horror Fiction: project #2, post #347 Despite the tremors in her hands she managed to light each cigarette from the smoldering butt of the last. She watched them dig. Her mind whirled and...
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