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Time's Vengeful Echoes: Unearthing Secrets in Desperation · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  Hi, if you're a lover of all things spooky and eerie, then
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  a spine tingling experience. As you tune into this petrifying
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  horror experience, do not forget to subscribe as your nightmares
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  are about to get a whole lot scarier.
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  There are five waves of time travellers.
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  I mean from the future. They came back in five discreet
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  groups. From my perspective, they're all
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  jumbled together. I don't know if they all use the
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  same technology to get here, but they all mostly have the same
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  goal, to kill me. The first wave was probably more
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  experimental and not expected to succeed.
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  They're obvious to spot. They come running screaming.
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  They wear metallic jumpsuits or hairless and wield big military
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  knives. Dad's gotten good at shooting
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  them before they get within 100 feet of us.
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  The second wave still doesn't have any hair, but they wear
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  mismatched thrift store clothes, stuff that's been out of fashion
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  for several years. They're easy to mistake for
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  hipsters, especially if they're wearing hats to cover their bald
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  heads. They don't scream as they come
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  at me. They do walk with a purpose, as
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  Dad says, though a few of them have gotten close enough I've
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  seen their rotting teeth. Either something terrible
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  happens to dentists in the future, or time travel does
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  something to your teeth. My dad's a dentist.
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  At least he was before all this. Dad has a bunch of fake driver's
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  licenses. I possess dozens of fraudulently
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  obtained library cards. They're real, but they're all
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  under different names. Sally Roberts, Megan Jones,
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  Samantha Smith. Plain Jane names as dad calls
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  them. Easy for people to forget we
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  live on the road. I'm too young to drive so I read
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  or invent games. The backseat is filled with
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  library books we've stolen across the country.
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  I have two of the same book, 1's old and the other's brand new.
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  The old one has lots of notes in it, the other had none when I
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  found it. One game I like to plays to copy
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  all the notes from the older copy into the newer one.
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  It's no Minecraft, but it passes the time between time travellers
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  attempting to murder me. The third wave has black as thin
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  hair as dad calls it. I don't know if time travel
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  makes their hair that color or if third waivers are all like
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  genetically related or something.
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  That's one of the questions I have for the time travellers.
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  I keep a book of questions to ask them should I ever get the
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  chance to interview 1. The first one with black hair
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  didn't try to kill me. Not right away.
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  I'm not sure for how long, but he followed us.
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  He'd stay at the same hotels we did, he'd at the same
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  restaurants. He wore normal clothes and did
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  normal things like play games on an iPhone.
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  We were travelling down I-80 at the time, going West.
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  Figured he was making the same trek.
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  We found out his true intention when we were halfway through
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  Iowa. He was waiting for us at a gas
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  station in a nowhere town. He carried 2 Ruger Super
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  RedHawks, some huge 454 castle handguns.
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  He tried to dual wield them like a character out of a John Woo
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  movie. One of his bullets hit our car,
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  the other went stray. He was knocked back by the
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  recoil. It gave Dad enough time to get
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  his rifle, aim and hit him once in the forehead.
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  We drove off, stole another vehicle, and we're out of state
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  before sundown. One day in 7th grade history,
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  Mr. Norris asked the Class A hypothetical question.
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  He liked doing this to break up the monotony, as he called it.
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  He asked us if you could go back in time and kill baby Hitler.
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  Would you like the time he asked us if we'd purposely kill one
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  person to save 5 people tied to railroad tracks?
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  The class was fiercely divided. About half said they'd go back
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  and kill baby Hitler. The other half said it's wrong
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  to kill an infant who hasn't done anything yet.
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  Both sides made sense to me. Now when I think of that
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  question, I cry. Not for myself so much.
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  I mean, I guess I do, but more so because I miss sitting in Mr.
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  Norris's class arguing stuff like that, and I miss the
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  monotony. The 4th wave are the most
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  dangerous. Dad calls them sleepers.
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  They land in the past, sometimes years before I've even been
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  born, and they live normal lives.
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  They know someday they might encounter me should that day
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  ever come. They're prepared to do what's
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  necessary. We were in a diner once, and one
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  of the prep cooks walked out from the kitchen.
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  He lunged at me with a butcher knife.
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  Dad's left hand was severed. Fighting him early on, Dad's
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  longtime receptionist at his dental clinic grabbed one of his
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  drills and attempted to put it through my skull.
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  She waited for years before she took her chance.
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  Dad didn't kill her right away, so I asked her some of the
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  questions I'd written down. She cried as I read them to her.
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  She said my book of questions is used in interrogations in the
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  future while people are tortured.
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  I told her, well maybe if you answered my questions you won't
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  be tortured. Dad thinks she had a cyanide
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  capsule tooth because she died after I said that.
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  I dream of building a device, one that let me send explosives
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  into the future. Take the fight to them.
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  Once, several months back, we were lying low in the woods near
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  our junkyard. From my library books, I was
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  able to put together disparate pieces of information about how
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  to build a machine. I mostly knew how to build it
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  from the notes in the book I have two of.
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  I made a prototype of my machine.
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  It was the size of a microwave. Looked a lot like one too.
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  I took a bullet, a 38 Special, and put it inside.
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  I set the machine for 10 years from now.
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  It disappeared. I destroyed the prototype and
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  scattered the parts across the junkyard.
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  The 5th wave was a single person.
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  She was an old woman and I didn't recognize her at first.
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  My face had changed so much, but she still had my eyes.
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  I met her only once, years ago. She didn't try to kill me.
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  It was a summer day and I was home alone while dad was at
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  work. This was before his receptionist
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  tried to kill me before any of the other waves.
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  The old woman came into the house through the patio door
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  without asking. She said she was going to make
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  herself lemonade because they stopped selling her favorite
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  brand decades ago, but we had some in our kitchen.
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  She poured us both glasses and asked if we could sit outside
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  near the garden. That was always my favorite spot
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  to read out of there on that sunny day.
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  She told me about a bullet she'd found in a junkyard 10 years
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  after she'd sent it into the future, about how she built a
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  bigger and greater machine after her father was murdered by a
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  person with hair black as sin. Before she left, she gave me an
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  old library book filled with notes.
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  It looked boring at the time, but she told me I'd find it
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  useful someday. She left before Dad got home.
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  I told him everything that she'd said, and he thought I was
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  joking. But then over a few weeks 1st
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  and 2nd waivers attacked us and then his receptionist.
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  Right now I'm trying to enjoy what time I have left with my
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  dad before someone with hair black as sin kills them.
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  Before I find the bullet I sent into the future, before I build
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  my machine.