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Gabrielle screamed out, but she was quickly silenced when the beast bit down on her throat and ripped away everything but her spine. With persistence it savaged the young girl until there was only a pile of bloody and torn flesh, matted hair and bones.
     
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                  As Rod walked toward his truck to go to work at the station, his cell phone began to ring. How odd, Rod thought when he recognized the number.
                  “Why are you calling me on my cell Clara?”
                  Clara then told Rod about the remains of a body that had been found in the park. It had been mutilated, probably sexually assaulted, and cannibalized. She had already been in contact with Officer Chapman and he was already on the scene.
                  “Rod, I am really worried.” Clara said in a very sober tone of voice.
                  “What is it?”
                  “Evelyn and Ricky Parker have both called the station this morning. They say their daughter is missing.” Clara explained.
                  “Oh…”
                  Rod started his vehicle and drove toward the park as fast as he could. He hoped that things were not as bad as Clara had made them sound. But after working with her for several years he had learned that she usually did not exaggerate.
                  The sun was shining bright when Rod turned down Oak Street. The sky had turned from a dark red to a bright orange.
                  Rod parked his truck and approached Officer Chapman who was standing beside the remains that were covered with a large plastic blue tarp.
                  “How bad is it?” Rod asked.
                  “Let’s just say it couldn’t get much worse.”
              Rod peaked under the tarp to see the terrible mess of bloody twisted and torn flesh. Rod studied the design of the clothing the person had been wearing , (what was left of it). He could tell that the person had been wearing bib overalls, probably ones designed for a young woman. Rod was becoming more convinced that it was the remains of Gabrielle Parker.
                  He stood up and moved around to the other side of the body and once again lifted the tarp up. This time he saw her face, any shred of doubt he might have had was immediately gone, it was indeed Gabrielle.
                  “Son of a bitch.” Rod said out loud as he realized just how awful the situation was.
                  “Yeah, it is the Parker girl, isn’t it?” Deputy Chapman asked.
                  “Yes, yes it is.” Rod said reluctantly.
                  Rod’s thoughts shifted to Dusty Welker’s dog Zero who had been slaughtered a month earlier. What if the two incidents were connected?
                  That couldn’t be , Rod thought to himself.
                  An ambulance and the coroner arrived.
                  “Listen, I will inform the Parkers about their daughter. Don’t you worry about it.” Rod told Officer Chapman whose shift had ended an hour ago.
                  “They’ll need to identify their daughter won’t they?”
                  “Yeah, they will. I’ll go down and let them know though. You know, try and soften the blow a bit, if any. You go home and get some sleep.”
              Rod had no idea who or what had done this horrible act. Suddenly, it dawned on him that last night had been a full moon. He gazed up to the cloudless sky and thought to himself: Something evil has returned to this small town, or maybe it never left.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    5 years earlier
     
                  I t was a rainy Halloween night, and Maxwell Hester, a twelve year old sixth grade student at Wilson Elementary was still out