Memory 36: Expensive
Mar. 19th, 2022 02:12 pmThe phone screen’s full of horror movie monsters, cartoony but sinister, all sharp edges and jagged teeth. There’s Dracula, and the wolfman, and a mummy, and three different ghosts. They’re making their slow way up the path toward the haunted house, where a little girl is up on the rooftop, peeking out periodically with frightened blue eyes.
All along the path, little waystations of defense do their best against the monsters. A giant slingshot stakes the vampire. A series of fans turn on and try to blow away the ghosts.
But the mummy and the wolfman, they’re at the doorstep.
Hurricane checks his points – 500, then 600 as another ghost bites it. He taps the equipment button and an array of monster-fighting gear shows up as an overlay. In the background, the mummy and the wolfman keep coming, not paused.
“Ah, dammit,” says Hurricane.
“That’s what I was going to say,” says a voice, and Hurricane starts so hard he almost drops the phone.
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All along the path, little waystations of defense do their best against the monsters. A giant slingshot stakes the vampire. A series of fans turn on and try to blow away the ghosts.
But the mummy and the wolfman, they’re at the doorstep.
Hurricane checks his points – 500, then 600 as another ghost bites it. He taps the equipment button and an array of monster-fighting gear shows up as an overlay. In the background, the mummy and the wolfman keep coming, not paused.
“Ah, dammit,” says Hurricane.
“That’s what I was going to say,” says a voice, and Hurricane starts so hard he almost drops the phone.
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