Day of the Sasquatch by Eric S Brown

Author:Eric S Brown [Brown, Eric S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2018-02-26T23:00:00+00:00

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Roger stood next to his patrol car, his pistol drawn and in his hand. He had placed the bag of weapons and the .30-06 rifle the kid had brought on its hood. The crossbow he had taken from the girl rested on the pavement of the driveway at his feet. This situation was so far outside of the norm that Roger was spooked and unsure of himself. For now, he had the kids all rounded up on the porch of the Meadows’ house. He figured he could keep an eye on them there while he waited on the sheriff to arrive. Nearly half an hour had passed since Roger had called for backup and the kids were getting antsy.

“Hey, Deputy,” Ed called to him. “Are we just going to sit here all night or what?”

“Cool it!” Roger ordered more harshly than he meant to. None of the kids had really broken any laws aside from having the guns and the one named Lyle was really behind all that if you got technical. He had no grounds to arrest the others. They claimed to have run into a Sasquatch in the woods above the house and killed it. There was no proof that the kids could show him though unless he ventured into the woods to where they told him the Sasquatch’s body was. Roger wasn’t willing to that. The kids outnumbered him seven to one, and he knew watching them all on such a hike would be impossible. If they were up to something, their numbers would give them an edge that might be too great to deal with if he let them loose. No, the porch was where they were going to stay for now.

“Didn’t you call for backup?” Robert asked from the porch. “What’s taking them so long?”

Roger sighed and shook his head. Robert was the one kid he at least knew something about and respected. “I don’t know,” he answered. “I’m sure they’ll get here as soon as they can.”

“And in the meantime, we’re just supposed to sit here?” the one named Lyle who had brought all the guns challenged him. “That doesn’t seem too smart to me, sir. Not if there are more of those things out there in the woods. They could come down here any minute and we’d be sitting ducks just waiting to be slaughtered!”

The kids really believed what they were telling him, but that didn’t necessarily mean that it was true. Roger had seen and heard some crazy stuff since he became a deputy, but killer Sasquatch? That was pushing things a bit too far.

“I’m right here if something shows up, kid,” Roger assured Lyle. “If it does, I’ll handle it.”

“Or it will handle you,” Lyle told him. “I don’t think you really understand what you’re dealing with, sir.”

Roger wiped at the beads of sweat on his forehead with the backside of his hand. Where in the devil was the sheriff? Someone should have shown up by now. Roger knew the sheriff

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