September 2006 Issue The Horror Library, your Haunted Home for Horror Fiction, Dark Art, Horror Games, Movie Reviews, Book Reviews, Non-Fiction, Alternative Music, Horror Authors, Horror Short Fiction and featuring The Terrible Twelve - RJ Cavender, Bailey Hunter, Boyd E Harris, Megg Roper, Jason Beirens, CJ Hurtt, Eric Stark, Cordelia Snow, Chris Perridas, Curt Mahr, Stephen Sommerville, M Louis Dixon, Kerry Drummond
Baba Yaga's hand fell across her face, it was not the first time that Eve had felt the sting of the ancient hand.
"You need to learn this soon. Not much time left. You must do this. Silly fate, we wyrd sisters are meeting now."
Gales sang outside the cave in the Scottish hills. Salt air stung Eve's eyes, the salt joining with her tears of pain and frustration.
"She is learning slowly sisters, but she is learning."
"She must learn faster or we will all be destroyed. The monsters stir under the earth"
"We need her to know. Rules broken that have never been broken before, time is un-doing..."
"Coming apart, our eye is becoming cloudy, blind. The chicken legged house's are gone"
"This cave is no home...no place to teach. The storm can come in without knocking"
"Uninvited storms are far too dangerous" said Eve.
The three Baba Yaga sisters turned towards the voice. The sound was mighty, determined, full of sadness, though no fear.
"The storm has blown sense into her sisters." a smile grew across the sisters faces.
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Mister Bellows sat in his house, Joe sat across from him. They watched each other, stern expressions on their faces, arms folded across their chests.
"You need to go Joe." Bellows had no more emotion behind his voice, he knew neither he nor Joe would give up. They sat and waited for word from Baba Yaga.
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Inside the earth below the city of New York the sewers drained into massive fissures. Billions of rats and cockroaches fell to their deaths. A sewer worker named Fred Washington held onto a metal ladder leading to the street. He peered down into the blackness. Screams could be heard in the distance, not screams of pain, but of lust, hunger.
There was no shaking, no give of stone, no rumble in the distance to warn anyone of what was happening. As far as Fred knew, he was the only one who knew of what had happened.. Fred looked down into the blackness once more, and then upward to the other side of the man hole cover. Little beams of sunlight filtered in. His eyes squinted, after seeing the blackness any light was too much. He thought of his wife and unborn child and knew what was coming for them and then let go and fell away into nothing, never making a sound.
A few moments later the same thing happened all over the world. No warning, no mercy. Things were starting to become undone. The sounds of unearthly glee could be heard in the minds of mankind, gooseflesh raised on arms and the backs of necks, children began to weep, those asleep woke screaming.
Darkness was no longer coming, it had arrived.
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The sisters and Eve looked out from the cave at a bruised purple sky and readied themselves for the fight.
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Mister Bellows and Joe appeared in a small children's playground a few miles from the brownstone.
"Did you do this Bellows'?"
"No."
"He did not. I did." A voice as deep, resonant voice. Silky smooth, a hiss and a kiss to it.
