Infested: Cursed Ones 1

By Lily Taffel

A NEW HOUSE, A HAPPY FAMILY, AND NIGHTMARES
THEIR DREAM HOUSE HAS BECOME A LIVING NIGHTMARE

A huge patch of land by the river surrounded by trees and with a price that’s practically a steal? Situated by Red River in Burkburnett, Texas, it is peaceful and not too far from the center of the city. It is an offer that husband and wife Jim and Sue cannot refuse. A trucker by trade and a father of two, renting out an apartment no longer suits his family’s needs. The couple secured a loan that not only gets them the land but also a house.

The two-storey house that they have built fits perfectly with the surroundings. Wooded areas shielded them from the outside and if they fancy a dip, the river at the back is always available. It is literally the beginning of THE GOOD LIFE for the family.

Then a day after their official housewarming party, SCARY events begin to happen - shadows going against the light, images in the periphery of their vision, voices that mimicked theirs, and HORRIFIC nightmares. The eldest daughter falls sick while the youngest starts to converse with an imaginary friend. As if these aren't enough, Jim and Susan discover tracks outside their house and dead animals in the backyard. The events did not give them rest. As the hours pass, their frequency increase.

Will you still fight for your DREAM HOUSE when it has become a LIVING NIGHTMARE?

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JIM WAS NOT sure if he was dreaming.

He was in the bedroom. The dimness of their room increased the sensitivity of his ears. For many moments, it was silent. He lay still, listening.

Nothing.

Jim decided to go back to sleep after a while. He even turned over to one side. But when he closed his eyes again, the sound magnified around him. He began to hear a consistent panting and now that he was hearing this detail, the stronger it got until it felt like the sound was from inside the room. But he was alone. He listened some more to make sure he wasn’t just imagining things. But the sound would not go away. The panting would not stop.

Jim abruptly got out of bed and faced the side where his back was to. The sound was still audible, but there was nothing—no presence there.

He listened hard and approached the direction where he thought the sound came from. Ahh, it came from outside the room. The door was open and light and shadows filtered in. Something passed by, momentarily cutting off the light that streaked through the door.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandra Ross
• Release date: May 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311488794

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Infested

By Lily Taffel

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1

FINALLY, some quiet time, Jim thought as he walked out the front door and stepped onto the porch. It had been a busy day with people arriving way into the last minutes of the afternoon. The housewarming lasted until five, although it was very late for a housewarming. Still, Jim appreciated the quiet time that settled in after the guests had left.

It had been exactly three weeks since they had moved to the house.

Susan and Jim had timed it such that the children, Jenna and Faith, did not have to miss school-preschool, in the case of the youngest Faith. Sitting down in one of the chairs beside the small table in their porch, Jim could still not believe how lucky they were in acquiring the property.

Jim had been a trucker for fourteen years. He and Sue met in his first year of being a trucker and immediately hit it off. Six months into the relationship, they decided to marry. The young couple settled in an apartment in Wichita although neither of them came from there or anywhere near there. Jim was from Nevada and Sue was an Illinois girl.

The decision to stay in Wichita sounded practical. It was close to Illinois and had one of the busy stops that Jim always frequented. That was where their first daughter, Jenna, was born. The apartment was adequate for their needs until their second daughter, Faith, came along. With two daughters growing up and one practically approaching puberty, Jim knew the apartment would not suffice.

The stroke of luck came just as their youngest was born. On one of his stops in Ponca City, Jim ran across an old trucker friend by the name of Elroy, a lighthearted giant born and raised in Dallas. Over a few beers, they asked about each other's families and it was there that Jim brought up the subject of getting a place of his own.

Elroy had heard about some properties but they were too expensive for a trucker with two daughters. And then Elroy mentioned a too-good-to-be-true deal. The description of the Burkburnett property sounded great. The land was surrounded by trees and was basically on the banks of Red River. To the eager ears of Jim Miller, the large tract of land practically sounded like a steal. There was a catch-there was no house, just the land.

But that was alright, considering all the other things mentioned, Jim thought to tell it to his wife that night.

Afterwards, Susan was all over Wichita, meeting consultants, even lawyers, to see about options for getting the land and setting up a house. She almost gave up, every consulting agency and every lawyer's office she went to spoke of big words and promising deals but never really connected with her. Susan's parents ran their own hardware store back in Illinois so she knew a sales pitch when she heard one. Everyone she met worked to get her into agreeing quickly. That usually spelled regrets later on.

The help came in the form of Jacob Beasley-an up-and-coming lawyer, eager to make a name for himself. He walked Susan through the different options for financing, the terms, and the long-term benefits or pitfalls for each option. What's more, he did it all pro bono, with just a promise that if the Millers or any of their friends needed any advice may it be legal or financial, that they would send business down to his El Dorado office. Of course, they still paid him once they settled on a deal.

When Jim got back to their apartment in one of his downtimes, all he needed to do was sign the papers. With financing secured, Jim and Susan acquired the title to the land and once the two-year loan matured, applied for another, again with the help of the lawyer, this time to build the house and secure the necessary permits.

Looking back, Jim smiled at his good fortune. He was able to achieve the American Dream of owning a home, especially during these hard economic times.

The house was a simple two-storey building with all of the bedrooms located on the second level. The garage was built detached from the house itself, to the left. Located on naturally green land, there was not much landscaping done. They decided on having a small cottage to the back of the house, a couple of steps towards the riverbank where they had built an L-shaped wooden walkway that stretched well into the river.

To complement its surroundings, the house was built mostly of wood. They had originally planned to have a patio but upon seeing the cost, Sue, being a practical woman she was, settled for a wide porch instead. They had lights installed in every corner outside the house, including the big garage where all of their tools were kept.

With the cool breeze coming from the river and the sense of peacefulness and security given off by the trees that surrounded the property, Jim could not ask for a better place. No more bothersome neighbors, the closest being a hundred and fifty meters to the west. Most of all, traffic noise was a thing of the past with the closest road, Caffee Road, being a quarter of a kilometer away.

Finishing his beer, Jim reminded himself that he and his family