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mudhole and kept running.
    “They’re gaining!” Drew sounded scared now.
    Gasping for breath, his legs burning with exhaustion, Justin looked back again.
    A pallid hand reached out and clutched his coat collar. Behind it glittered obsidian eyes and a red maw crammed with white razors, contorted in silent gnashing.
    Justin stumbled and fell headlong, breaking his attacker’s grip. Tasting grit, he clambered away, spitting. Drew was hurled to the ground. Drew’s eyes went wide when two of the guys descended on him.
    Justin expected the guys to swear, swing their fists, but they were silent, machine-like. He staggered to his feet, but one wrenched him off-balance and slammed him on his back.
    As the third guy arched over him, he saw this was no Halloween get-up. Half the guy’s face had been blown away by a shotgun blast. Bee-bees were imbedded in a bare patch of skull, and black blood oozed from the meaty wound. Justin gagged at the putrid stench.
    Icy fingers burrowed under his coat. Talons curved out and raked his belly, slicing open the skin. Justin kicked like driving pistons until the ghoul pitched off him. He rolled and scrabbled away.
    Justin was about to bolt when Drew bleated like an injured goat. Justin jerked around.
    One creature buried its face in Drew’s abdomen like a swine feasting from a steaming slop trough. The other one lunged at his throat. Drew shrieked until the creature gnawed through his vocal cords.
    Hot blood coursed down Justin’s belly. Eyes loomed before him like black pearls rolling, and the ravenous, gnarling jaws opened wide. The third creature reached for him with glinting talons.
    Justin dodged. He dashed through the corn stalks, stumbled over the bank, and raced down the road in the darkness.
    He ran like hell all the way home, glad he hadn’t thrown corn at the GTO Judge.
    •     •     •
    At midnight, after the moon sank below the horizon, four colorless figures filed through the corn. They climbed in the car silently, and the black GTO Judge disappeared into nothingness, without even the moon as its witness.
    More Dark Fiction from Lee Allen Howard
       DESPERATE SPIRITS
    I n this duo of supernatural thrillers, Calvin Bricker deals with desperate spirits right in his own neighborhood.
    In “The Vacant Lot,” a supernatural presence beckons from the empty neighborhood lot. Calvin’s curiosity leads him to an aged portrait painter with a terrible secret about a dead undertaker and his missing wife, who seeks eternal release.
    In “How I Was Cured of Naïveté,” a seemingly innocent spirit appears in the foyer of Calvin’s home. When he discovers her fate, he sets her free—only to find that little girls aren’t always made of sugar and spice. Snick, snick!
    If you like crime and mystery with a supernatural bent, succumb to the call of Desperate Spirits !
       “MAMA SAID”
If Joe Lansdale and Carson McCullers somehow managed to spawn a literary, fictional child, “Mama Said” would probably be it. A damn good read! —Trent Zelazny, author of The Day the Leash Gave Way and Other Stories
    O n his thirteenth birthday, Buddy gets shipped up north by his religious mother, who can’t cope with his sister’s teenage pregnancy.
    Just as he resigns himself to spending the entire summer at Gram’s farm caring for kittens and cows, his bitter sister Brinda arrives, ending his peace and solitude.
    When her boyfriend Jackie shows up and turns his attentions to Buddy from his bride-to-be, Buddy must do what Mama said—or take matters into his own hands.
    Download “Mama Said” now for the chilling conclusion .
       THE SIXTH SEED – a novel
THE SIXTH SEED abducted my imagination and unsettled me with its pitch-perfect blend of science fiction, body horror and domestic terror. What a weird read! —Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Proverbs for Monsters
Howard brings alien invasion up close and personal... buckle up for a thrill ride.