An excerpt from the Southern Paranormal Gazette: “Brimstone, TX is once again the site of evil supernatural events. A young NTU football athlete has been expelled from the college on charges of aggressive stalking. Officially from statements of the victims, his sexual relationship with the two cheerleaders soured once his old knee injury returned. It appeared he was making a miracle recovery and set to leave college to make a foray into professional Arena football.
However the returning degradation of his knee seemed too much, leading him to be combative and aggressive, and as one of the ladies put it, “A total downer to be around.” Seems the former athlete did not like his advances spurned, and sequestered the women to have a private conversation near Brimstone cemetery.
Yet it is on good authority from our staff that there are other ghastly crimes this tortured student was involved with. Notably the stealing of fresh corpses from the local mortuary. Was he gathering these poor women for a late afternoon snack? Why culminate near the cemetery? Was he planning on sharing his supple bounty of beautiful women to a fellow ghoul? Questions sure to be looked into.
For now it seems the cannibal student in question is no longer a resident of Brimstone, returning to his family in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. The local sheriff considers this case closed, but we know better don’t we dear readers. Mind you the staff of the Southern Paranormal Gazette will be sure to scour local news sources for any other reports of missing corpses in Brimstone.”
… But members of the Brimstone Public Library Book Club know the real tale. Toby Brooks desperate to recover from a career ending injury was willing to do anything. It looked innocuous enough. Some weird ritual involving opening his blood out in a tilled farm field. Waking later after slipping unconscious, Toby found his old knee wound healed and feeling great. Far more agile and strong, surely his prospects to join Arena professional football would happen. If it wasn’t for this overbearing hunger. Cooked meat wouldn’t do. Pretty soon animal meat wouldn’t satisfy him either. Then there was this calling to him, demanding he bring something more alive.
The group had dispatched the ghoul which held power over Toby. The local sheriff was perfectly willing to follow the lead of the campus police and offer Toby a misdemeanor charge of stalking the young ladies. Seems his old wound became aggravated again. Expelled from school, his dream of professional football gone, it all seemed punishment enough.
But the Brimstone Public Library Book Club had one lingering question unanswered. How did Toby stumble upon the ritual? Carefully crafted in a flourished script, it described the arcane task in simple language, with just verses in Latin for speaking the incantations. It described the boons the caster would gain but no word of the awful price they would pay.
Toby had no answer other than one day sitting in his dorm room, an envelope slid under his door. Stepping out into the hallway to investigate, no one was there. The person that delivered it apparently walked off out of his sight. Another mystery for certain.