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Craig Nybo

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Chapter 15

The usual patrons haunted Abigail’s Diner with their tinkling glasses and murmurs of conversation. They sat in bucolic groups, gabbing and drinking coffee. But the chat seemed somehow less enthusiastic. The usual laughter had ebbed. People seemed to speak with subdued tones and frequent glances over their shoulders.

Kurt sat across the table from Hugh Fostett. With the facts behind Buren Peoples’s sheep mutilations out—having spread like a virus—and with the rampant and inane speculation that monsters had lodged the attack, Kurt, being a man of reason, felt out of his element. Hugh seemed to be the only man with any sense of reality left in the community, a lightning rod in a field of absurdity, and so Kurt had asked Hugh to breakfast, to talk.

“Hello, Kurt,” Lucy Cadano said. She wore her usual blue skirt and white apron.

“How are you today, Lucy?” Kurt asked.

“Peachy,” She said with a smile that revealed a mouth full of metal braces. “Coffee and a paper, right?”

“I think, since I have company, I might splurge.” Kurt picked up the menu and glanced over it. “Why don’t you bring me your lumberjack breakfast and coffee. And get the old man

Concerning:

Kurt McCammus

Hugh Fostett

Lucy Cadano

Durlin Ceivers

Harmon Bently