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Story Title:  "Extra! Extra!"


"'Things the gargoyles have done?' I asked.  The conversation was
taking a turn I was not entirely comfortable with.

'Yes, have done, will do.  Do you think that time is significant when
measured against the slow blood of stone?' he growled angrily, pressing
closer to me.  I instinctively drew back and realized with no little
discomfort that only the wall was there to meet my retreat.  Where the
hell was Conner, anyway?  Damn him and his lousy cigarettes.

I forced myself to remain calm and finish the interview.  'So, for our
readers, can you describe something you have seen?'

'I've seen the inside of a news van, its interior soaked with the 
blood of a dying camera man.'

That was it.  I bolted out of the decrepit building and down the alley,
slipping on trash and old newspapers.  I stopped at the sidewalk.

One back door of the van was open and squeaking back and forth on its
hinges in the wind.  The door kept knocking against a foot that hung
at an awkward angle out of the back of the van.  A red smear was on the 
bumper and the pavement.

Horribly, incredibly, I found myself looking up to the gargoyle across
the street.  A maroon smear ran obscenely across its jaws and more
red dripped from its stony clawed hands."

Copyright 2006 R. David Fulcher

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