Sarah Thompson
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HELLS GRACE Part 13 Chris screamed first before a wide splatter of his blood caked the left side of his face. Some of it went to Eliza; she could feel it enter her mouth and stick to her teeth. Maxine sliced through muscle, fascia, ligaments and then the bone. One hand gripped hard on Chris’s wrist while the other sawed through flesh. The sight of the blood made me dizzy. Not because I had vasovagal syncope (I had grown accustomed to the sight of blood for the past few days) but because of the…-
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Part 12 “I’m gonna go and check up on Danny,” Eliza told Zack. It had been almost ten minutes now since they entered the cabin. Zack and Maxine were too busy reminiscing about some of their glory days when Hodge made a funny speech during another friend’s wedding, or when they went on a camping trip, and no one brought a map and how pissed everyone was, lost in the woods for hours. Eliza knew what Zack was doing. He was trying to distract Maxine from thinking about her late husband, Adam, or what…
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Part 11 Stopping wasn’t an option. I said it like a mantra when I glimpsed the headlights of a Toyota Camry driving through Cedar Lake road and then turning left into what I had now dubbed as “The Gate,” the point of no return, the very entrance into my domain. Like all visitors, they stopped their car midway, engines humming idly in the darkness, wondering if this was the right path. If they continued down the road they came from, eventually, they’d end up on a dead end, a gravel road that…
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HELLS GRACE Part 10 [ Dread Score changed for archetype: Curious, I expanded the prompt, and it pushed me back into the System interface. Oracle was thrilled by the new designation the System had given him. “Congratulations, Goliath gave Oracle a big thumbs up, and I could sense the static building around Oracle’s monitor, brimming with excitement. I was happy for him, too. He’s like a kid who just got a big bowl of Halloween candies from all the houses throughout the neighborhood. “No…
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Part 9 Oracle quickly changed the screen to a bedroom from an apartment building a block away. It looked like a college student's bedroom, and I was looking through his laptop’s camera. The boy was a couple of years older than me with bleach blonde hair cropped short and wearing a faded black Green Day shirt, editing some drone footage he got of Portland the night prior; the drone sat beside the laptop. I was growing impatient about when this boy would leave his room. Finally, he grabbed a towel from…
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Part 8 I stared at the System’s open interface in front of me and began to laugh. After my conversation with an My laughter echoed across the cabin in a low shudder through the wood, stone, and foundation. It crawled into the dirt with a vibrating ghostly essence that, for a moment, I thought real people might have heard me. I couldn’t help it, bubbling up my throat like bile. I got a fucking job--An “What is the matter, my liege?” the demon asked, concerned. “What? Oh. Nothing. Um, I just…
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HELLS GRACE Part 7 Goliath and the demon picked up Alvin Jones from the side of the road and drove him back to the cabin. Pretty much the most awkward, silent ride you’d expect—deathly glares from Goliath and the demon through the rearview mirror and Alvin’s amused, casual smirk biting back against the silence. The demon and Goliath did not trust this stranger coming into our home, but the possibility of concrete answers was hard to ignore. It didn’t even look like Alvin Jones was fazed by my…
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HELLS GRACE Part 6 The back door swung open, and Tara snuck inside. The cabin was quiet. She could only hear her own breath. The slightest footsteps against the floorboards sent chills up her spine. However, she couldn’t hear Yasmine. I could tell by the way her brows furrowed that she found that mildly unsettling. Perhaps, in jobs like this, the other girl had a knack for charming their targets, distracting them long enough for Tara and her brother to knock them out. Or kill them, whichever was the…
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HELLS GRACE Part 5 “That’s weird. It says on Google Maps that this road doesn’t exist,” Yasmine said from the backseat. Unlike the others, she wasn’t dressed for a break-in, wearing a band t-shirt I hadn’t heard of, a loose, long-sleeved flannel shirt, and shorts. She was younger than the others and must be around her mid-to-late twenties. She looked Polynesian, with brown skin and long straight black hair. A quick look at her Instagram feed showed that she hailed from Honolulu, moved to LA,…
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HELLS GRACE Part 4 There was something wrong about Alvin Jones. And I didn’t like it one bit. For one, he wasn’t like the others. He had no “footprint” online. No social media. Not even the previous ones he made at the height of Facebook and MySpace. He barely had any popular apps on his iPhone except for what was already there after you got it from the factory. The only thing was a couple of games and WhatsApp, the latter he used to communicate with the… His browser history was incognito,…
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