Year's End: 14 Tales of Holiday Horror by James S. Dorr

Author:James S. Dorr
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: horror
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Published: 2012-11-26T05:00:00+00:00

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Jeremy Tyler

Rob Carlisle was feeling pretty good, watching the never-ending and never-dull parade of partiers walk past him. On any given night, the old Tampa neighborhood of Ybor City was a great place for nightclubbing. The hottest clubs were all on 7th Avenue, with lines forming for blocks out on the street. But even without going inside, there were plenty of open air bars and patio clubs where you could sit back, listen to the overlapping sounds of the live music, and just feel the excitement in the air.

Yes, Ybor was always a great place to be. But on New Year’s Eve, it was an absolute riot.

And Rob was in an especially celebratory mood. He had gotten word, not four days ago, that his life was actually his again. After three years of living with varying forms of chemotherapy, radiation treatments, and enough half-crazy experimental procedures to qualify as a decent sci-fi thriller, Rob’s doctors had given him the terrifying, but expected, final diagnosis. His cancer was terminal, and he had an estimated year to live.

Yeah, not exactly the kind of news that generally inspires a party. But, that wasn’t the part he was celebrating. It was the unbelievable, and clinically impossible, fact that his incurable, inoperable, and unrecoverable cancer had gone into full remission. Rob was cancer-free, and open to a life full of possibility.

That was something worth making a fuss over.

So, tonight he was out at the biggest New Year’s Eve party in the state, covering all of Ybor City. Tonight, he didn’t have a care in the world.

Those, he would tend to tomorrow. Or the day after, depending on how bad a hangover he was nursing.

There were considerations, of course. Rob had planned on living a short but full life for what time he had left, so he had quickly burned through his savings, indulging in a full range of once-in-a-lifetime activities. When he ran out of money, he realized that he hadn’t run out of things he wanted to do. At that point, an opportunity had turned up that seemed perfect.

The Best Days Group, a non-profit organization based out of the Cayman Islands, had approached Rob about a bold, new program they were running for people with terminal diseases.

You see, the current law stated that a person could not legally sell his or her body to science, even after they were done using it. But, through special funding and creative legal jargon, The Best Days Group were able to bestow sizeable grants to individuals who made the decision to donate their bodies to their sister organization, Rising Dawn Technologies.

Rob had received one of those grants, allowing him to live a life of absolute luxury in his last few days.

The fact that they weren’t his last days any longer made for a bit of a sticky situation. He would have to contact the group and let them know that he was no longer a dying man. They would, no doubt, want their grant money back, but they would just have to be reasonable with him while he worked out a repayment program.

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