Blood Moon
By Chris Kreie
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Mateo has waited all year for this weekend: a road trip with his best friends to view the fabled blood moon eclipse. Even better, they're riding in the jeep he rebuilt himself. But when a driverless truck appears out of nowhere, their fun turns to terror. Driven off the road, Mateo and his friends realize there's something sinister happening under the eclipse. Can Mateo and his friends escape the spirits of the blood moon, or will they be cursed forever?
Chris Kreie
Chris Kreie is an elementary teacher and lives in Minnesota with his wife and two children. As a kid, he always loved scary stories.
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Blood Moon - Chris Kreie
CHAPTER 1
Mateo looked over the snack aisle. His eyes surveyed row upon row of chips, cheese puffs, crackers, flavored popcorn, and any other unhealthy thing a person might ever want to stuff down their throat. He had the munchies, and health food wasn’t even part of the equation. He was in here for junk, and picking the right junk food at any given point in time was an art form. He factored in his mood, his drink choice, even the temperature and humidity outside. He finally zeroed in on two options: spicy tortilla chips or pork rinds. Decisions, decisions.
Priya and Kristy were on the opposite side of the gas station, grazing through the candy bars. Mateo was always partial to salty over sweet. He grabbed the tortilla chips and walked to the soda case.
On his way, he glanced outside the store at Carl, who was kicking back in the jeep, waiting for the rest of them to finish. It had taken Mateo over a year to rebuild that jeep, and he had done it almost singlehandedly. It was his baby—and his ticket out of Middleton. Mateo was going to be an automotive engineer. That was a done deal. It had been his dream to design cars ever since he was a kid. Now that he was just a little over a year away from college, Mateo was determined to learn as much as he could about cars, get a scholarship to Cal Poly University, and leave his little barrio behind for good.
Tonight was the maiden voyage of the jeep. He’d taken it around the neighborhood a bunch of times, but this was its first time on the open road. He and his best friends were heading up the Pacific Coast Highway. The PCH. The West Coast’s most notorious and magnificent road. It hugged the Pacific Ocean and twisted and turned up and down the coast for hundreds of miles. It was the perfect road for the night they’d been waiting for all year: the night of the rare blood moon. Mateo reached into the cooler, picked out his favorite root beer, and met Priya and Kristy at the counter.
So, what exactly is this blood moon thing, anyway?
Kristy asked Priya.
It’s only the rarest phase of the moon,
Priya said as she paid for her snacks. It’s the fourth total lunar eclipse in a row, when Earth completely blocks the moon from the sun. It happens only once every couple of decades.
Mateo added. And the moon turns red?
That’s the best part,
said Priya. At the moment of the full eclipse, for just a couple minutes, the moon is bathed in the blood of the interstellar gods and cleansed of all its evil demons. Boo hah hah!
She waved her hands in Kristy’s face for scary effect.
Whatever, Priya,
said Kristy. You know I’m already freaked out. Don’t make it worse.
Mateo and Priya laughed and finished up at the counter.
Outside, dusk had fallen and a typical Northwest coastal fog was pushing in from the sea. Customers were filling their tanks while traffic sped by along the highway. The air had a slight chill to it, but the heat of the day was hanging on for dear life. Mateo and his friends hoped to time their drive perfectly to be at the Crooked Rock lighthouse when the blood moon happened, just before midnight. Mateo hoped the fog wouldn’t ruin their view.
Come on, guys!
Carl shouted from the shotgun seat. Time’s a wastin’. Let’s hit the open road!
Let’s go!
shouted Kristy. She and Priya screamed and raced to the jeep. Mateo smiled as he ambled along behind them. It was going to be a good night. Definitely a night to remember.
On his left, an old, tan pickup truck was parked at the edge of the lot. It had caught his eye when they pulled in, and seeing it again, he had the same strange feeling that something about it wasn’t right. The engine was idling, but there was no one behind the wheel, and he saw no exhaust coming from the tailpipe. The truck was old, but it didn’t have a scratch on it. Why would someone go to the trouble of keeping a run-of-the-mill truck