My Inhuman Condition: A Short Story of Horror

By A. Lopez, Jr and Damien Smith

An innocent high school party. A bloodthirsty evil lurking in the shadows. A group of friends must fight to survive the night.

Landry Locker is a high school sophomore living in a small desert farming town in Arizona. What he wants most in life is to make it through high school, get into a good college, and attain a high-paying job. In the meantime, he would love nothing more than to gain a friendship with his secret crush, Kat.

Much sooner than he imagines, he gets his chance, but fate had something else in store. A once promising night turns grim, leading Landry and everyone he cares about into a dark and unforgiving world. His life and the lives of everyone around him are changed in one short night.

This dark and fast-paced short story doesn’t look back until the fates of Landry and his friends, including Kat, are revealed. Even in a small town, one night can change everything in the blink of an eye. When the night gives way to dawn a shocking and painful truth is soon revealed.

If you like your horror fast and unnerving, then you’ll love My Inhuman Condition. Get it today and see who survives the night.

"Crazy will change you...if you let it."

• Language: English
• Publisher: A. Lopez, Jr
• Release date: Feb 6, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370076420

A. Lopez, Jr

Born and raised in Texas and now residing in Arizona. I am an avid reader and big Houston Sports Fan. I play chess everyday when I'm not squeezing in a little time for writing. I published my first work Purgatory - 13 Tales of the Macabre and Floor Four - A Novella of Horror, an Amazon Bestseller in Occult Horror. Also completed is Night Dreams, an episodic series in seven parts that can be read separately or in one complete novel. My column, 'Ask AJ', appeared in All Authors Magazine online and I have had short stories published on Dark River Press, The Sirens Call eZine Issue #14 and the anthologies, State of Horror Illinois published by Charon Coin Press and Concordant Vibrancy published by All Authors Publishing. You can connect with me on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, and my website, alopezjr.com.

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Contents

. Chapter

Prologue

1. Party Planning

2. Friday Night Lights

3. King Creek

4. Uninvited Stranger

5. Jump!

6. To The Rescue

7. We Should Talk

Epilogue

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We shall never be again, as we were.

~ Henry James ~

Prologue

Sitting here, as I make my first entry into my journal, let me introduce myself. My name is Landry Locker and I am eighteen years old. I am a senior at Vista High School in King Creek, Arizona. It has been a great school despite what happened two years ago. That event will never be forgotten. I think the students and faculty are beginning to move forward and for the seniors, the focus has shifted to their schoolwork and future plans for college.

I live with my parents on ten acres of land just outside of town. The land is surrounded by a tall fence but looks more like a wall. I mean, you can see through to the other side and all, but it has always seemed like overkill to me. We live in the middle of the property so we never really notice the tall fence much. We live there with twenty-four of our other family members in sort of a compound I guess you could call it. Yes, you read that correctly, twenty-four of us! Of course, we don’t all live in the same house—there are five houses in all. I live with my parents in one, probably the biggest one. In the other four, we have our assorted family members of uncles, aunts, and cousins, even poppa and nana. It sounds strange, but it’s all I’ve known growing up and once you get used to it, it’s really not all that bad. We are all very close.

My mom and dad run what they call, ‘the family business’. It’s located in the heart of Old Town King Creek. The business has been in our family for generations and it seems to support our family well. When I was younger, I thought it was the coolest thing to run around the store and explore all over, out the back door and into the alley. Every once in a while me and some of my cousins would climb the metal brackets on the drain pipe and use it as a ladder to