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COMMENTS: Had sex with her on 7/16

I gave the cowboy his change, glancing over his shoulder at the TV every chance I could get They were back to old footage fro close-ups of bullet holes in walls and shell casings on the floor The cowboy turned to follow aze, saw the TV "That’s some scary shit, ain’t it?"

I said, "Yeah"

"Whole world’s comin’ to an end, that’s what I think"

"Yeah, probably"

"Nigger in the White House"

"Yeah"

The cowboy left He stuffed his wallet into his back pocket and I iain, squeezed by the sheer pressure of the fabric I grabbed a DVD and went back to peeling off stickers

I had gotten written up six weeks ago because more DVDs were stolen on ers Not sure what I was supposed to be doing to stop it, other than running out and tackling the kids who tried to walk out with the goods The probles that would activate the door alarm were in the DVD cases, not on the discs, so it only took the thieves ure out they just had to pop the disc out of the case and stuff it in their pocket, leaving the case and the theft tag behind Yes, this town has people who are actually too poor to afford a computer and Internet connection to just pirate the ry e- the antitheft system was idiotic and that if they were serious about people not stealing discs, then they should put the antitheft tags on the discs thereed, and I and two other e these stiff little stickers to all of the new releases in the store The plan worked beautifully That is, until last Thursday, when a custoht in a disc that had been scratched to hell because the theft sticker came unstuck inside his DVD player It jammed the little tray when it tried to eject the disc and he had to pry it out Two days later, a custoot stuck thanks to the sticker, he wound up breaking the disc tray on theto free it

I wasn’t at the store that day, I was on one of reeted by twenty-seven e-ers and other people I had never heard fro me that every antitheft sticker had to be re this up in case you ondering why in the holy hell I felt the need to come in to work in the middle of what appeared to be some kind of monster infestation The answer is that if I took one et these stickers off by the deadline I would be fired, and even if I could talkI sure as hell couldn’t talk my way out of both And if I was fired, soon after society would decide I wasn’t earning my electricity and water and ht If you think that’s a bad reason to co you’re still living with Mo new Security cae, from inside the hospital In color, but in a frame rate thatfive feet at a ti in terror They cut back to the studio and soht in Then they cut back to the security video and I froze

I heard the DVD I was holding fall to the counter

Did I just see that?

They played it again The first fra a nurse around the throat The frauard ca to talk Franky down Next frame, same players, limbs in different positions Looked to be about one fraot me

At the top of the screen appeared a man in black And I mean all black, head to toe A solid black shape Next fraone

I stared They cut back to the anchor The closed-captioning lagged behind but I didn’t think I saw any ure in the hall

My cell phone screaet to a television?"

"We got one on here I saw it"

"The thing in the hall?"

"Yeah Man in black"

"Shadow man"

"Whatever"

"Man, this isn’t a joke anymore"

"It wasn’t a joke before, John A bunch of people died"

"You knohat I ht"

"I don’t have the crossbow The cops confiscated it, rehter We’ll sleep in shifts"

"No Wait, bring your what?"

"Come on man, how do you know Franky won’t show up there?"

"He’s surely dead by now"

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