It Sleeps at Dawn bY Christopher M. Long

It sleeps at dawn

By Christopher M. Long

It is a typical warm, sunny day in the neighborhood of Easten-crest. Easten-crest is located within the small town of Coconut City, Florida, which is just north of Pompano Beach. The neighborhood is just like every other neighborhood in the area, locked in a box-shaped grid with about fifty streets, all of which has anywhere between one-hundred to one-hundred and twenty-five houses lined up in a row. There isn't anything spectacular or special about the neighborhood itself. The street names range from one southeast street to fifty southeast street, all the houses look the same, shitty lunchbox looking wood-framed stucco shitholes. The only thing distinctive about them is the fact that they are painted different colors. Some yards have plants and trees, others have gates some wooden other's chain-linked, various yards have sports stuff like basketball hoops, soccer goals among other sports themed things like hockey sticks, bikes, and rollerblades. It's about three-thirty in the afternoon right now, the sun is still hanging high in the sky, blasting its rays down onto the neighborhood. There isn't even a cloud in the sky. The sounds of a basketball are heard being dribbled as it gets, smashed down against the cracked up blacktop, street by a nineteen-year-old kid named James Downy. James is a tall kid, about six-two, dressed up in a white T-shirt and jean shorts. He has a mild athletic body, not super pumped up with muscles that look like mountains but just rather modest. The tallish kid is topped off with slick-back jet black hair and a clean-shaven face. He continues to dribble the ball around the street while staying in front of a driveway that has a water tank based seven-foot-tall Basketball hoop. Right next to the hoop stands a mailbox that has the numbers six-four-eight-one SE tenth street painted on it.

Next to the mailbox sits a mildly chunky kid by the name of Dick. He's the exact opposite of James. He's about five-six, and rather portly. His face is full of zits, and his hair is a rat's nest and greasy as fuck. To make the kid stick out like a sore thumb, even more, He's wearing a stupid bullseye T-shirt which is wet and slimy from sweat, and his ripped up warn out jeans are also

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less than clean. Right now the goofball is looking though a nude magazine, his eyes lightened with delight and looking rather horny as well like he's a few seconds away from ramming his hand down his pants. James yaps at Dick with a deep authoritative voice, “Yo Hoggie boy, fucking watch this!

Dick glares up to see James fly over to the driveway across the street, still dribbling the ball fast and hard, he spins around quickly and launches the ball into the air. The ball flies like a missile right at the backboard of the basketball hoop, and, brick. The basketball hits the rim and bounces away down the street towards a nearby yard. Dick drops the magazine he's looking at and gives James a condescending clap followed by a whistle. He says is a humorous way, “And, you want to play for a college team!” James replies in a snarky tone, “And, you're salivating yourself to a pack of girls who would laugh you out of the bedroom!” He add's, “Come on dude, you'd have better luck with that cat lady spinster down at the end of the street!” Dick gets up in a very awkward manner, almost faceplanting in the process. He manages to get to his feet after a few moments and dusts himself off. The goofy kid glares and James, who in turn smiles back. James says in a very dismissive way, “Get my ball goofy!” Dick replies in a rather distressed tone, “No way, no fucking way, dude!” He asks, “You see where your ball landed, in that position pill's yard? she fucking scares me, she's not normal?” James rolls his eyes and says, “She comes from New Hampshire, that's all!” He adds, “those stories of her friends getting slaughtered in some demon house, no way, no fucking, doubt it happened, her going into some breakdown crazy spin, doubt it!” He finishes up by saying, “Now, you wanna talk strange shit, look over there!” The jock points over to a house about five doors down. The yard is burnt, the once white picket fence is now missing planks and is brown with dirt and covered in black mold, there's even a broken statue as well. A giant U-haul truck is parked in the driveway and a hearse is parked on the side of the road. James says informatively, “Me and Jeff saw them pull up this morning as we were about to go to school, One creep got out of

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the u-haul truck, I swear the guy didn't look like he was all there, almost like he didn't have a damn brain in his head, and a guy got out of the hearse. That fucker looked almost animalistic!” Dick asks confused, “Who drives a damn hearse?” James slams Dick In his gut and shoots out, “Your poison pill girl, portly boy!” James trots over to his basketball and picks it up. Dick rolls his eyes and folds his arms. He says in a not so humorous way, “Not funny James, not funny clown!” As James nears the yard full of overgrown grass that his basketball found itself in, he stares at the gray rustbucket metro parked in the driveway. The only notable thing about the car is a faded sticker that has the image of New Hampshire on it, with the words The Town Of Crow's Landing in faded yellow lettering. James swipes the ball and tosses it into the air before making his way back over to his driveway. Right as he nears his basketball hoop, the sound of a car engine is heard humming. It gets louder as the car gets closer. The tall jock spins his head around to see a blue sporty looking Saturn dring on up. It parks on the side of the road. Jim stares at the car for a moment, as the door swings open. A blonde girl dressed up in a blouse and loose-fitting dress pants exits the car. The cute long blonde girl who has her hair tied up in a pony-tail is carrying a small backpack with her. The classy dressed up girl makes her way over to Jim, immediately kissing him, as Dick looks on awkwardly. Jenny Lang says, “The day in the life of a psych major!” James lets out a sarcastic yet humorous quip, “Don't you mean fucking Pysch major!” Jenny chuckles as she responds, “Freshmen College kid, and you still have a third-grade vocabulary!” The jock kisses Jenny and gropes her. Dick clears his throat several times and says, “ Hey, PDA is not okay!” The kissing couple breaks apart for a second., James says, “Don't worry about him, he was just about ready to self spray some goo, not more than three minutes ago!” Dick says in an embarrassed tone, “Hey!” Jenny adds in an embarrassed tone as well, “Little more than I

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wanted to, hell, needed to know, dude!” It's at this point that they hear the rumbling engine of a classic seventies Javelin roar. it's accompanied by the blasting fast-paced song “Stone Cold Crazy” by Queen. The three friends see that the black Javelin is speeding up to them like a wild lightning bolt, which is rather fitting because the car has red and yellow lightning bolts painted on the body and hood of the car. The beast of a car comes to a loud skidding stop, leaving rubber marks on the road behind. James, Jenny, and Dick look at each other in unison. Dick shoots out, “Hope it's worth ruining his tires, doing that stupid shit like anyone's impressed with that douche stuff!” J ames replies in a very dry tone, “Hope he has a blowout!” Jenny slaps Jim on the shoulder. He looks at her, she smiles at him. The driver's side of the Javelin swings open and a long-haired guy, dressed in army fatigue pants and a leather jacket gets out. The buff looking reprobate reaches into his pocket and pulls out a pair of sunglasses. He puts them on before making his way

over to the three friends. Dick greets, “What's up..?” Rex cut's Dick off bluntly and rudely without even looking at either of the friends, “Shut up, clown fart!” He adds, “What's up college boy, college twat?” James replies, “Come on, Rex, there's no need for that!” Rex says, “Hey, I'm just here for a polite conversation, that's all!” Jenny quips back with a smiling grin on her face, “Do you even know the meaning of the word polite!” It's at this point that a gray corpse looking guy catches James' attention. The guy looks like he just died and rose from the grave. His clothes are dirty and ripped up and look like they smell like rotting death. His giant hands reach into the back of the U-haul truck and they pull out a love seat sofa, which looks like its made from black silk. Rex screams, “Yo, earth to asshole you listening or what?” James breaks out of his trance looks at Rex and mutters, “Of course I am,” He asks, “What?” Rex say's, “Party this weekend or what?”

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Jim looks at Jenny, who has no response. He turns to Dick who in turn looks away. Rex angrily says, “Hey moron, disconnected from the conversation here stupid!” The creepy corpse-looking guy catches Jame's attention again, this time Rex looks over as well. Rex says more hostilely, “Hey shitload, people moving into a fucking house isn't interesting!” James replies, “Look at the guy doing the moving! Rex shakes his head and lays in an insult, “I swear, college is scrambling and fucking your brain up more than before!” He adds, “Get a fucking life, and let me know if we're partying this weekend!” With that said, the group disperses. The three friends walk up to the house, Rex makes his way back to his car, but not before looking back over at the U-Haul truck. The punk sees the creepy looking moving guy reach back into the truck. The guy pulls out a diamond-encrusted gold chalice. The punk's eyes widen when he sees the potential score. Rex rushes over to his car and gets in. He slams the door shut, and looks over at a leather-clad beauty, who has sprayed up curly dark brown hair, her lips painted with cherry-red lipstick. Rex says is a happy mood, “I don't think this was a complete waste of time, Sherry!” Sherry replies, “It always is, you need new friends, Rex, the ones you have are boring!” Rex says, “ Shut up, twit, I just found a new score, thank you

very much!” Sherry sarcastically snaps back, “Oh really, what, a dildo?” Rex answer's in a blunt tone, “No loud-mouthed bitch, a golden chalice!” Rex revs' up his car engine and pounds his foot down on the gas peddle. It's a few hours later, the sun is off on the horizon, the moon is rising in the sky which is getting darker by the moment. James makes his way out into his garage, which is full of boxes and other random shit which includes a decent-sized red Mac toolbox. The toolbox has a few drawers wide open.

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There's a car in the only open space the garage has. It's lifted by a hand-cranked Jack, a pair of legs are sticking out from underneath. James says, “You know, if dad comes home and sees you working out here, he'll neuter your ass!” Jerry replies, “Hey, I pay rent here, I can work if I want!” he adds, “Unlike you, who'd rather take the easy way out and get a degree in some worthless crap!” Jerry rolls himself out from under the car holding a filter and filter wrench. The guy who appears to be in his mid-twenties, and is built just like James, stands up. Jerry is a man's man type guy, buff looking and full of muscle's, from years of heavy lifting labor working on cars at twenty-five dollars an hour, flat rate. Right now he's wearing the T-shirt of his favorite band, slayer, Flames, Demons picking apart victims, a gigantic pentagram, with the word's Slayer and Hell, awaits finish off the creepy display. Jerry says, “Nothing like working all day and then coming home to do a fucking oil change!” The tech tosses the oil filter into a trash can and walks over to a quart container of fresh oil and new oil filter. James says, “Don't mind me, I'm just going to take the trash out for tomorrow!” Jerry replies, “Look, dude, college might be fine and all, and I know you like sports and all that shit, but dude, come on, you should have gone to a vocational school! You'd be better off in the end!” James rolls his eyes as he grabs hold of the trash can. He makes his way outside and down to the street, rolling the wabbling can all the way. He has to save the can several times from tipping over. Jerry struts his way down to the edge of the street as well, wiping some grease off of his face as he moves along. Right as Jerry reaches James who is still standing at the edge of the driveway looking at the new neighbor's house, he pulls

out a carton of cigarettes from his pants pocket along with a match. Jerry pops a cigarette into his mouth and strikes a match.

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James looks at him as the tech blazes up. James says in an authoritative fact-based tone, “Those things will kill you, man!” Jerry replies humorously, “I work with cancer-inducing materials all day, who the fuck are you trying to kid!” James looks back over to the new neighbor's house, to see the creepy looking zombie-like corpse guy walking down to the hearse, this time he's followed by a shadowy figure, to unclear to see who or what the guy looks like. Jerry asks, “Why are you worried about those clowns?” James answers back with a question of his own, “Do you know anything about them!” Jerry replies, “Other than their bitchin' wheels, no!” James tells Jerry in an informing tone, “Those two guys ain't normal, they look like they stepped out of a damned horror film or something!” Jerry puffs out some smoke and playfully puts James in a headlock, giving him a noogy on top. James tries to pull away but is outmatched by his stronger brother. Jerry finally lets James go and says, “Come on goof, nothing to see over there, nothing at all!” The tech flicks his cigarette away and struts on back up to the house, and James turns his attention back onto his new neighbors, who are now at the hearse. The ghoulish guy flings open the trunk, and the two guys reach in, as James just watches them in a trance-like way. James' trance is cut short and his mouth drops when he sees what the two ghoulish figures yank out of the back of the hearse. Its a long heavy-looking black oak coffin. James says in shock, “Oh, my fucking God!” He mutters, “No, no fuck, Nah, no no, not a, no!” He nearly jumps out of his skin when he gets grabbed from behind. James spins around and lets out a right hook to Dick's face. Dick screams in pain as he gets flattened to the ground. He grabs his jaw as he looks at James in annoyance and pain. He screams at James, “Help me up you jackhole!” James reaches down and grabs hold of his slimy friend's hand. He yanks the portly kid up. Dick screams out the question, “What's the big idea, you

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fucking weirdo?” He adds, “Rude, your very rude!” James explains, “You scared me!” Dick laughs out answering back, “Chicken-shit, no dick!” James says, “Look over there, two guys carrying a coffin!” Dick looks over at the U-Haul truck and hearse, no one is there anymore. He asks, “Are you cracking up, boner face?” James asks confused, “What are you talking about?” He spins his head around to face the new neighbor's house to see nothing! Dick chuckles out in a condescending tone, “Cracking up ole' buddy!” James' eyes widen with confusion and says, “I don't get it, I just don't get it!” It's a few hours later and Rex's flashy looking Javelin silently pulls up across the street from the house that has the hearse parked out by the street, the U-haul truck is gone. Rex stares across the street at his mark, the house lights are still on. He looks at his dashboard clock, it reads one-thirty. Sherry asks, “You sure this is worth it?” Rex laugh's out asking, “Does a two-thousand dollar pawn seem like its worth it?” He adds, “Yes, babe, it's worth it!” Sherry says, “The guy is a night owl!” Rex replies, “Who cares, a big score here, a big score here!” With that said, the lights in the house go out. Rex looks at Sherry and he lets out a devious smile as he pops open his door and pulls out a flashlight from his pocket. Sherry asks, “Shouldn't you at least wait till they fall asleep or something before you go in?” Rex exits the car and quietly shuts the door. He quickly, yet silently makes his way up to the house, passing by the hearse. He makes his way onto the cracked up driveway, weeds and grass are popping out everywhere. Rex goes for the nearest window and peeks into what appears to be the living room. Shadows of boxes and furniture gleam as the light of the moon bounce off of them. The scum punk shines his flashlight throughout the room and bingo. The golden chalice is sitting on a small end table. A sinister smile forms on his face as he goes for the front door, which is about three feet away. It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.9

Rex slyly looks around as he pulls out a flathead screwdriver. He makes short work on the doorknob, breaking it off pretty quickly. He eyes the deadbolt and repeats the process. After he gets the key lock off, he messes around with the bolt itself until it gives way. Rex swings the door open and gives the outside one last quick look before entering the house. Rex slowly glides around the living room dodging and passing by various furniture and boxes as he makes his way to the chalice. When he reaches the object he has his eyes on, he gives it a quick swipe and looks it over. His mouth salivates at the thought of getting some major money for this trouble. It's at this point however when his face turns to disgust and his stomach starts to spin around and rumble. He looks around and starts to gag from the stench of rot and death that has just hit him like a fist to the stomach. He quickly covers his nose. Rex asks in a very repulsed way, “What the hell is that smell?” The stench starts to do such a number on his nostrils that he begins to taste the putrid smell in his mouth. He dry-heaves when this happens. Rex shakes his head and spins for the door. Before his attention turns to his destination, he sees a pair of glowing red eyes in the darkness watching him. They are coming from one of the bedrooms. When the glowing red eyes catch Rex's full attention, he gets put into a full-on trance. A mist starts to form and it glides over to the statuelike punk thief, who can't do anything. A bat - faced human-like creature, bald and greenish flies out from the shadows with the greatest of ease. The creature which is wearing old tattered clothing grabs Rex by the head with one hand. The monster shoves Rex's head down so his victim's neck is revealed. And it immediately sinks its razor-sharp four-inch fangs into the punk's neck. Blood spews out like tomato juice. With one massive rip to his neck, there's the sickening sound of veins and tendons ripping apart that acts like a grotesque symphony. In the end, the punk's throat is ripped clean out and he convulses from massive bodily shock. Blood splatters and spray's everywhere making for a rather gross and morbid sight. The Chalice fall's to the ground with a loud thud, which acts like an exclaimation point to the situation.

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Meanwhile, Sherry is sitting in the car curled up in a ball, chewing on and blowing bubbles with gum, while having periodic looks of boredom forming on her face. While she's in her little word, a shadowy figure catches her attention, as it walks out into the street and stands about fifteen feet in front of the Javelin she's sitting in. Sherry forms a look of annoyance on her face as she sucks the bubble gum back into her mouth. She calls out, “Come on lame-brain, stop fooling around and let's get gone!” The passenger side door gets ripped open and Sherry lets out an ear-piercing scream until two hands reach in and rip her cleanout. Sherry plops down on the ground hard, belly-flopping on her stomach. A loud thud is heard as she smacks down on the pavement. She gets winded by the hurtful blow she's dealt. She gasps for air as she tries to catch her breath. The attacker grabs Sherry and yanks her up with the greatest of ease and plants the leather-clad girl on her feet. A twisted look of horror forms on her face as she sees her attackers face. The beastly looking ghoulish man looks like Frankenstein's monster fucked the wolfman, an elongated snout, and patches od hair covering him, he also has muscles for days, almost like a bodybuilder. The creepy looking guy-creature opens his mouth to reveal rotted out green and yellow colored teeth, and several razor-sharp fangs. The stench of putrid rot and dog floats from his body and smells as though a line of flies should be hovering around him. The beastly creature laughs a death-like crackling laugh, as Sherry lets out a silent scream. The creature cock's its arm back, its hand forming into a fist. He takes a swing, punching a hole through the poor girl's chest with all his strength. Blood spews out and splatters everywhere as her heart and its hand flies out of her back. The creature rips Sherry's bloody heart over to his mouth, and then he lets go of the girl's bloody corpse. The bloody corpse falls to the street, as the creature takes a nice massive bite into the heart. Blood covers his face as he continues to munch on the muscle organ like it was an apple. The glowing-eyed bat faced creature leaps over to the corpse and starts ripping into the dead girl's throat. It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.11

The Next Morning. James is down at the street dribbling the ball around his basketball hoop when Jenny's Saturn pulls up. James hooks the ball sending it flying into the hoop, as Jenny gets out of her car. Jenny happily says, “Nice shot!” James replies, “I know!” James trots up to Jenny, as his basketball rolls over into his next-door neighbor's rock driveway. The happy couple embraces each other with a hug and kiss. Jenny asks, “Not ready for school!” James replies, “You know I have today off, thank God!” he adds, “You know, I do think my brother's right about school being a waste of time, I mean Jesus, my major sucks, the basketball coach laughs at me!” Jenny shoots back, “Don't be ridiculous!” Their conversation comes to a quick stop when the sound of a car horn starts up. The couple turns to face the car which comes to a stop in front of James' neighbor's driveway. Dick quickly gets out and rushes up to to the couple. He's completely out of breath by the time he reaches them. Jenny and James look at each other in unison, James has a smile on his face. Dick says while trying to catch his breath, “You, you, he.. hea.. you... ha... Re... Ca...” James cuts Dick off, “Catch your breath fat stuff!” Dick gasps for air for a moment longer before he stands up straight and lets out a few coughs. He begins to breathe heavily for a few seconds as he regains his composure, The portly kid says, “Rex, Rex!” Jenny asks, “What about Rex?” Dick says, “They found his car smashed up, Rex and Sherry got into an accident, they were fucking mangled and smashed up pretty badly!” James asks in a somewhat shocked state, “Are you sure? Are you sure it was them?” Dick explains, “Yes, a tow truck was towing his car away, Blood was all over the street too!” he adds, “Tony saw two body-bags earlier on!” Jenny and James look at each other. It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.12

James asks, “Are you sure its Rex's car?” Dick answers, “How many other people do you know drives around in a lightning bolt printed car?” he adds, “It's his car, dude!” He finishes off by saying, “Tony Del Toro, saw what was left of Rex and Sherry on the ground before they were body-bagged.” Jenny lets out a deep breath and says, “Shocking, sad and shocking.” It's at this point that James looks over at his new neighbor's house to see the corpse-looking guy painting the windows with black paint. A look of confusion forms on the jock's face as he continues watching the weird action. James says, “Guys, Guys, look at that!” He points over at the guy painting the windows. He asks, “Isn't that a bit weird?” Dick answers, “Yeah, I guess!” Jenny asks, “Why would someone paint windows?” James answers back with a question, “Why would someone drive around in a hearse, why would someone have a coffin in their house?” Dick laughingly asks, “What are you talking about, coffins?” James says firmly, “Yeah that's right! I watched him carry in a coffin last night! Dick and Jenny laugh their asses off at the statement. Dick puts his arm around James and pulls him in. The fat kid laughingly says, “Still on that story, dude! I didn't see anything like that last night!” James angrily says, “I'm telling you, I'm telling you something's up with that place!” Dick laughs and says, “Stop it, dude!” Jenny cuts in sort of mad and says, “Hey, you two, Rex and Sherry are dead, and you idiots are arguing about some stupid stuff! Stuff that has nothing to do with the situation, stuff that doesn't matter!” James nervously says, “Jenny, I think that those new people might be involved!” Dick laughs his ass off again, which causes the creepy looking guy to paint the windows to turn his head and look at the three friends. Dick spots the guy and calls out asking, “Yo, Yo, did you kill our friends last night?” It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.13

The creep groans places the paintbrush down and walks for the front door. Jenny slaps Dick on the shoulder twice. Dick says, “Hey, hey, hey, a little violent aren't we Jenny!” Jenny replies caustically, 'Fool!” The girl rolls her eyes and makes her way over to her car at a quick pace. James asks, “Where are you going?” Jenny answers, “Since nothing productive is going on here, and that you two morons would rather argue with each other over stupid things, after finding out two of your friends just died, I think I'm gonna make my way to school!” James asks, “Coming over later?” Jenny answers, “No, I think I'll be checking in on Rex and Sherry's situation!” James offers, “I'll come with!” Jenny replies, “Nah, you and Dickie can sit here and argue with each other over dumb stuff!” Jenny gets into her car and drives away as the two friends look at each other. James slaps Dick on the shoulder. Dick screams in shock and back's away. James says, “Moron, smooth move!” Dick replies, “Come on, its just as much your fault, I mean Jesus,! I tell you Rex and Shery are dead and you bring out conspiracy theories about your neighbors killing them!” James pleads, “Not normal, they're not normal, I fucking telling you man, they are not normal!” The jock points over at the house's painted windows, and then he points to the hearse. Dick shakes his head in disapproval as he replies, “Painted windows, a hearse doesn't mean jack!” James screams back, “The coffin, what about the coffin!” Dick replies annoyed, “I didn't see any coffin, get off it dude, you're beginning to resemble your fruitcake neighbor, the other one!” He adds, Do yourself a favor and get some sleep, I'll talk to you later!” James suggests by asking, “Why don't you go over to the guy's house, and look in the window or something?” The fat kid answers back, “Forget about it! Moron!” It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.14

Dick heads back to his car, James just stands there and watches him for a moment. Dick says, “Get some sleep, seriously!” The portly kid swings open the car door and stumbles his way in before slamming the door behind. The car drives off. It's a few hours later and Jerry comes driving up to his house in his silver Thunderbird. He starts to inch his way up when he sees a few cruisers and a coroner's ambulance outside of his house. Jerry comes to a stop and gets out of his car. He quickly approaches his yard, when a tall lumbering police officer stops him. When Jerry tries to go further in the rough and tough-looking forty-year-old with a crew cut grabs his arm. The officer says in a deep voice, “Whoa, whoa, whoa, stay put!” Jerry replies, “This is my house!” The officer informs him, “This is an active death scene!” Jerry says as his jaw hits the ground, “What? What happened?” The officer replies bluntly, “I'm not at liberty to say!” Jerry screams out, “This is my house, just please for the love of all things good, what the hell happened?” The officer reluctantly answers back, “Okay, Okay, since this is your house I'll give you this, a nineteen-year-old male was found dead, neck broken. Jerry closes his eyes and cocks his face up to the sky as he lets out several deep breaths. He lowers his head and shakes it several times in disbelief. Several days later, the bodies of Rex, Sherry, and James have been buried. In the time from them being murdered to being buried several more bodies have been found. All the victims have been dispatched brutally. One victim had their arms dismembered, another had their throat ripped out, both resembled bloody stumps in the end. Jenny and Dick are standing out in Jame's front yard, right next to the Saturn. The two of them are starring at the creepy neighbor's house. Dick says, “I'll go over and check things out!” Jenny asks, “You think it will be wise!” Dick answers, “Wise or not, its something that should be done,

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I mean come on, three of our friends are dead, James thought those creeps were involved with Rex and Sherry's untimely demise, he ends up dead!” Jenny says in a confused manner, “I just don't see..” Dick cuts in by saying, “Look, I don't give a shit what anyone says, James didn't have no accident!” Jenny asks in a panicked tone, “But, why would they kill him?” Dick answers, “Maybe, because I yelled at one of them that day, I don't know!” Dick starts to walk down the street towards the creepy neighbor's house. Jenny asks, “You're gonna spy on the guy?” Dick simply answers, “Yes!” Jenny walks over to her Saturn and gets in, but not before shooting out, “Let me know what you find!” The fat kid just keeps on walking down the road until he walks in front of the house that's across the street from his destination. Before he can make his move to cross the street, Jenny's Saturn drives by at a very slow pace passing by him. This action gives Dick both the time and opportunity to notice the bloodstain's on the ground from when Sherry got her heart punched out. Dick slowly walks over to it and crouches down to get a better look. A grossed outlook forms on his face when he discovers what it is. His attention gets averted away from the stain when the shadow of someone walking up engulfs him. When Dick looks up to see the gray-faced corpse guy looking down at him, he gasps in shock. The ghoulish looking guy who's also letting out a gag-inducing stench of death, clobbers the kid with a heavy-handed right fist, knocking some teeth out of its victim's mouth in the process. Three of Dick's front teeth along with some blood shoots out of his mouth as he collapses to the ground in a hard sickening thud inducing smash. The ghoulish guy picks Dick up like he was a sack of feathers and carries him over to his house. Sometime later. Jenny is hysterically pacing across the very small kitchen in

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James and Jerry's house. She passes by the small yellow refrigerator a couple of counters a sink and gas oven as she throws her arms wildly up into the air and crying out nonsensical gibberish. Jerry watches her and is getting more and more annoyed by the second. The tech finally screams out, “Will you just fucking tell me what the hell this is all about!” Jenny stops dead in her tracks and looks at Jerry, she says, “Your brother suspected something funny was going on with your new neighbors, he doubled down when Rex and Sherry turned up dead, and on that very same day he was found dead!” Jerry replies, “Okay, now we're getting somewhere, I don't see where but..” Jenny finishes up what she want's to say by informing Jerry, “Dick went over to check out the place today, now he's missing! I haven't seen or heard from him since this morning, his car is still parked across the street from your house!” Jerry stands up and makes his way for the garage. Jenny cries out, “Where are you going?” Jenny replies without even looking back at her, “I'm going to grab a weapon or something and I'm going over to that shit house, and check things out!” He finishes up before exiting out into the garage, “Something going on over there, I'll find out.” Jenny pleads, “I'm coming, I'm coming” The girl rushes over to the garage door and quickly follows Jerry. It's not long before Jerry storms over to his new neighbor's yard. He's quickly followed by Jenny who's grabbing at him trying to get his attention. She finally manages to grab hold of his arm, right as he's about to step foot onto the creepy neighbor's yard. Jerry stops and Jenny bumps into him. He quickly spins his head around to face Jenny and silently yells as her in an angry tone, “Will you stop!” he adds “You're going to get us killed, maybe!” Jenny says in a frightened tone, “I don't think we should do this, let's call the cops!” Jerry shakes his head and asks, “And what, tell them these guys might be murderers!” He answers his question, “No!” It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.17

Jerry heads over to the house, and Jenny quickly follows. They quickly come across the first two windows, which are painted black. Jerry looks at the entire front of the house to see all the windows are painted black. Jerry says in a soft dry tone, “Shit” He turns his attention to the side yard, which is blocked off by a six-foot-tall wooden fence. He makes his way over to the fence, as Jenny turns her head to face the setting sun. Jenny slowly makes her way over to Jerry as she continues looking at the sunset. She says in a scared tone, “I think we should probably wait till tomorrow,” When she doesn't get an answer she turns to face Jerry who is already at the top of the fence and crouched over ready to jump down. Jenny says, “Jerry!” Jerry jumps down into the backyard hard as he lands on his feet. He quickly makes his way over to the nearest window which is painted black. Jerry says in a pissed off tone, “These people are fucking whacko's!” Jerry gets grabbed from behind and spun around to come face to face with the creep ghoulish green-faced zombielike goon. The tech's eyes widen in horror and quickly reaches into his pants. The creature slaps Jerry in the face and shoves him to the ground. The ghoul stomps his way over to Jerry, who at this point is crawling away while trying to pull out the weapon he has stuffed in his pants. The braindead creep gargles and groans as he inches closer to Jerry. The ghoul reaches down and grabs him by the throat. Right before he yanks his next would-be victim up off the ground, Jenny comes rushing from behind smacking and slapping the creep. The walking meatloaf spins around to face Jenny and gives her one clean shove sending her flying into the nearby fence. The creep slowly staggers over to Jenny, allowing Jerry to get up. He wastes no time pulling out his weapon, which happens to be a giant wrench. It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.18

The corpse grabs Jenny, who at this point is screaming for help right by the throat. This cuts her off from screaming, and the only sounds she can manage to make now is that of choking. The creepy zombie-looking man cock's his fist back, and right before he delivers the fatal blow, Jerry smashes the creature in the head, repeatedly. With each blow the creeps head caves in more and more. The weird thing though is with each wound he gets, blood doesn't pour out, brains don't splatter and skull chips don't fly about. The only stuff that comes out of the ghouls head is dust and dirt. With one final blow from the wrench, the creature hits the ground. There's nothing left of the thing's head but a pile of flesh and dirt. Jerry and Jenny look at each other horrified for a moment. Jerry says, “My brother was right!” Jerry spins around and makes his way for the blackened windows, Jenny very quickly joins him. Meanwhile... Dick is slumped over in a giant golden cage, which is located in a darkened empty smelly and dirty room. The stench of wet dog hits him like a ton of bricks. The fat kid coughs and gags from the smell. He raises his head when he spots a shadowy figure standing in the darkness. Whoever or whatever it is starts to pace around a bit. Loud footsteps are heard, echoing throughout the room as the beast moves about. The Frankenstein-wolfman beast monster steps out from the shadows, just completely shocking Dick to near tears. The beast-monster howls out and then screeches in a deep macho voice, “Welcome to your final feast fat boy” He starts to laugh in a wolflike howl and says with humor, “Though bad news for you, you're the one on the menu!” Dick cries out, “Let me go, let me go!” The wolf-beast laughs his ass off and mockingly says, “Let me go, let me go!” he adds in a less humorous tone, “Not likely, just take it like the fucker you are!” Dick crawls up into a ball and whimpers. The beastlike creature says, “Stay like that you portly ball of fat shit!” He adds, “The master will love it, the more pathetic the

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victim, the better!” About thirty feet away in a darkened bedroom across the house from the caged meat room, lays a casket. The lid starts to shake, rattle, and roll until the lid flies open. The bat-faced monster immediately floats upright to his feet. The bat-faced monster, however, isn't in his horrific disgusting creature form, but that of a suave-looking elegant human, He jumps down onto the floor below landing on his feet. Back in the caged meat room, the creepy wolf-like person smiles showing his rotted teeth and sharp fangs and says, “Oh, it looks like our host of honor will be making his appearance very soon!” Dick tried to get to his feet, but, the wolf-like creep slams both of his hands against the cage, knocking it and the fat kid around. The creature says, “Show some respect human scum!” This is when the master makes his way into the room and looks at the fat kid, a smile forms on his face, as he quickly flashes his demonic red glowing eyes for a moment. The master says in a deep demonic crackling voice, “I see you brought me a winner tonight, by the looks of lard boy over there, we could feast for weeks!” They both laugh their asses off for a moment. The laughter, however, is cut short when a crashing sound is heard coming from the kitchen area. The master says giving a firm order, “Go check that out, we might have some uninvited pests to deal with!” The sound of a giant glass window is heard shattering into a million pieces and then falling like rain hitting the ground hard. The master restates himself, “Yeah, we have some uninvited pests, not knowing who they're fucking with!” He orders, “You know what to do!” The wolf-like creature howls with delight as he stomps out of the room in search of his next victims. The Master slowly makes his way over to the cage, a twisted look of sinister delight forms on his face. He lifts one of his decrepit looking monstrous hands and goes for the cages lock. With one hard yank, the lock breaks and the master lets it drop to the ground. A loud sickening thud is heard as the lock bounces on the floor. It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.20

Meanwhile... The wolf-like Frankensteins monster creature comes stomping out into the kitchen to see Jenny standing in front of where the sliding door glass used to be. It lifts its arm and storms right at the girl. Right before it can grab hold of her, Jerry comes from out of nowhere and smashes the creature several times with his wrench. While going for a third strike, the monster swats the wrench out of Jerry's hand and grabs him by the throat. The creature lets out a cacking wolflike laugh and says, “Lightweight!” The beastly monster lifts Jerry into the air, but before it can do any damage, Jenny smashes the creature in the back of the head. The creature gives her a backhand, sending her flying into the nearby oven, which ends with a loud crashing sound. It growls and snarls at Jerry before throwing him into a counter. Jenny quickly grabs Jerry and tries to pick him up, as the wolf-like creature snarls at her. She looks up to see the monster from hell looking at her, its mouth opened to reveal its long razor-sharp fangs. Jenny looks over at a bunch of shattered glass covering the ground, as the beast slowly stomps up towards her and Jerry, who is still trying to regain some composure. The monster charges at Jerry and Jenny, Jenny screams in terror as it gets closer. The beast raises one of its monstrous clawed hands ready to swipe her with a kill shot. At the very last second, Jenny dives down to the ground and swipes a bunch of glass, screaming as she does as she gets sliced up badly. The monster claws her forearm, causing her to bleed out even more. Blood splatters everywhere from the newly inflicted wound. Right before the beast can sink its fangs into Jenny's neck, she throws the shard pieces of glass point-blank into the creature's face. The wolf-like creature howls in pain and it dives backward and quickly gets to its feet. The beast is massively cut throughout its face with blood, puss, and some unknown green ooze squirting and gushing out. The wolf-like creature laughs its ass off and says, “Is that the best you've got bitch!” It sleeps at Dawn – Christopher Long Pg.21

Jenny replies, “No!” The wolf-like creature charges at Jenny, its hands raised and ready to slice and dice her to death. Right before it can grab hold of her, Jerry swings the wrench smashing it right in its snout. He takes one more swing, as Jenny picks up more glass. The creature lets out a loud howl and Jenny throws the glass right into its mouth. This causes the beast to stop. Right before it can spit the small pieces of broken glass out, Jerry smashes it in the face again. The wolf-like monster gulps as it swallows the broken glass, and begins to choke. Jerry and Jenny look on in horror as The creature's throat starts to rip and tear, blood pouring out as the glassworks its gruesome magic. The creature cocks its head up to sky causing the wounds to get worse, and more blood to pour out. It gags and gags some more as it starts to claw at its throat. The creature eventually gets brought down to its knees. Jerry walks up to the creature and smashes it in the face until its head detaches from its neck. Jenny with major spite and disgust kicks the decapitated head away. The girl says, “That's for James you asshole!” Back in the caged meat room, The master grabs Dick, who's facing the ground by the chin. The fat kid gets his head yanked up. Dick has a petrified look on his face, tears rolling down his eyes, and trembling with fear. The master says in a dry tone, “Don't worry, it'll only take a few moments!” He adds, “The immense pain will only last seconds before your life fades away!” The master's nice elegant face quickly transforms into his actual bat-human hybrid look. This scares Dick even more. The master opens its mouth to reveal its many razor-sharp teeth. It quickly lunges down going straight for Dick's heart. The kid's chest gets ripped apart by the master's teeth, blood splatters everywhere and he screams bloody murder in a painful tone, as he gets dispatched. When the deed is done, the master rips his head away from Dick's chest, blood covering his face, and pieces of heart

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hanging from his mouth. It has an orgasmic look on its face. It's at this point that the decapitated head of the wolf-like creature bounces right down next to the master's feet. It lands with a sickening plop and a dash of blood splatter. The master crouches down and picks the head up. The wolf creatures' eyes roll back and forth, its mouth is wide open, and its tongue jiggles about. The master says in a dry tone, “You just killed my damned snarler, my very expensive, hard to get hard to find snarler!” The master spins around, to show his blood-drenched elegant human face. His eyes glow red. Jerry replies in a fit of calm anger, “You're next!” He rushes right at the master, his arm cocked back ready to take a swipe at the creature with his heavy wrench. When he takes a massive head breaking swing with the wrench, the master catches the blunt object with one of his monstrous hands. He immediately rips the wrench from Jerry's grasp and grabs the tech by his shirt. The demonic creature throws Jerry across the room with great ease. and then when he turns his attention to Jenny, a sinister smile forms on his face. The master cackles and says, “This is the best you've got, you're fucked!” He grabs the wrench with his other hand, and he starts to bend the thick metal object, a sickening sound of iron snapping, crunching and breaking is heard as it gets bent and broken. The monster eventually breaks the wrench in half and throws one half right through a nearby wall. He throws the other piece of wrench about a foot away from Jenny's head, causing her to scream out. Jerry starts to stand up. He wobbles about as he fights to get to his feet. The master grips his hand around Jenny's throat and picks her up, choking her in the process. The monster says, “You shouldn't have fucked with me!” he adds, “Now you're gonna get what you deserve!” The master starts to squeeze her neck harder, and the sickening symphony of her neck bones beginning to snap and crunch is heard. Jenny tries to cry out but her efforts come out as choked out

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gagging. She looks into the demonic creatures piercing red eyes, and its grotesque murderous smile. Suddenly from out of nowhere, Jerry charges in at the master, carrying an iron sword that has small pentagrams carved into the handle with him. He screams out in anger and shoves the sword right through the creature's heart. Blood sprays everywhere as the master gets impaled, covering Jenny with the red bodily fluid in the process. The master drops Jenny back down to the ground, and he spins around to face Jerry, a look of horror and pain in his eyes. His mouth drops in disbelief as he looks into the eyes of a grinning tech who knows he has the beast beat. Jerry says in a cold tone, “Burn in hell you fucking son-of-a-bitch!” The tech kicks the bat faced monster into the wall behind, the master bursts into flames as he hits. Jerry looks down at Jenny, grabs her by the hand and pulls her up. The girl's neck is bruised and the creeps finger marks are grossly seen imprinted on it. The two of them make their way out of the bedroom and to the front door, they quickly and quietly walk out of the house. They keep on walking down the street until they reach Jerry's front yard. The sun is slowly rising behind them as they walk. Off in the distance, a shadowy figure stands out in the yard of the weirdo spinster lady neighbor from New Hampshire. The lady steps out from the shadows. She's revealed to be smoking a cigarette and dressed up in ratted pajamas. The lady herself appears to be in her early twenty's blond, disheveled, with dark circles around her eyes. The blonde-haired girl puffs some smoke, a smile forms on her face. Tiffany the neighbor says to herself in a soft tone, “Someone should have told those two never go into a strange house, you'll never know what kind of trouble you'll find!” The girl flicks her cigarette away and goes to the front door of her house, As she does so, part of her shirt falls from her shoulder to reveal a decent sized scar from a rather nasty wound.