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about?”
    “They’re going to get you?”
    “Who are they?”
    “The sirens.”
    “What is a siren?”
    “They bestow the kiss of death.”
    He grabbed my arm and forced me through the swinging doors leading to the backroom. 
    “What the hell is going on?”  I asked angrily.
    “In the middle of Main Street is a gateway leading to death.”
    “Death?”  I asked giving him a suspicious look.
    “They sing to put you in a trance.  Once they have you in their power, they will kiss you and drain the life force completely from your body.”
    “What the hell are you talking about?  This is complete nonsense.”  By this point, I was getting annoyed by his paranoia.
    “On Main Street there is a hidden gateway mankind can’t see.  It is where they come from.”
    All of a sudden, I heard a faint singing voice from the distance.
    “They come through the gateway so they can claim victims to satisfy their lust,” he continued.
    “This is the real world.  Mythical creatures don’t exist,” I argued.
    “You don’t know about the history of Lake Station.  They’ve demanded a human sacrifice for one of them each year for centuries.  Today is the day.”
    “You’ve got to be kidding me!  Are the people in this town so primitive they would let human life go like cattle?”
    “We have to.  Their singing makes us.”
    Our conversation was interrupted by someone screaming, “Help!”
    The singing was getting louder as if it was coming directly from outside the swinging metal doors. 
    “Jack, Jeff is acting funny!  He’s under the sirens’ spell!”
    The store manager rushed out the back room and ran to Jeff who was standing with a blank expression on his face as he was being beckoned by the song of the sirens.  He grabbed Jeff’s shoulders and shook him violently.  “Why didn’t you have sex last night?”
    “I…couldn’t…find…my…wife…last…night,” Jeff slowly said as he was still under the spell.
    Jeff’s body became stiff and it rose several feet off of the floor.  The store manager grabbed onto his legs and held onto him tightly.
    “Let me go!  I have to have her!  She belongs to me and I belong to her!  My dream! My Love! My Life!”  Jeff screamed.
    “Mister, please help me,” the store manager pleaded as I rushed over to them.
    I grabbed onto Jeff’s arm and held it tightly.  The singing was getting louder as if it was coming closer and closer.  Jeff jerked violently forward causing both the store manager and me to fall backward from the force.  Jeff slowly landed on the floor.  A few seconds later a tall, beautiful woman with silver hair and glowing red eyes appeared. Her skin was silver and she was wearing a silver dress that was a shade darker than her skin.  Her hair stood straight up like it was full of a strong electrical charge.  She slowly walked over to Jeff and put her right hand seductively on his chest.  She was singing while her mouth moved seductively with every word.  She cocked her head to the side and raised her hands.  Jeff’s body rose several feet in the air and then she floated upward until her head was aligned with his. 
    “You’re all mine.  My love.  My Life,” Jeff chanted repeatedly.
    She began to kiss his lips.  As she continued to kiss him, his body caved in as she sucked his insides out through his mouth.  As his whole body became flat as a sheet of plywood, he fell to the ground.  The siren stared at us for a few seconds and walked away. 
    I couldn’t move at all being frozen in fear. 
    “Is everybody ok?”  the store manager asked a few seconds later.  He kneeled down over what was left of Jeff and prayed.  He looked up toward me.
    “For the rest of my life, I will never forget what I witnessed here.” I said.
    “I’ve witnessed this happen several times in my lifetime.”
    “Why don’t you people move?  Just pack up and leave?”
    “I don’t know.  It has never occurred to me to leave.  Why?”  he