“I saw you in the window.”
“But you were in the back of the hotel. I was at the front window.”
Wayne started the engine. She looks a lot like you, Beth.
“Where there’s a demon, there’s an angel to balance it out,” he said. “Or so the theory goes.”
“Hey,” Cody called from the rear of the van. “I thought you were finally a believer.”
“Prove it.”
As he wheeled down the drive to the highway, he glanced in the rearview mirror at the charred bones of the White Horse. He half expected to see Beth’s face, or the smoky shape of a laughing spirit, or perhaps just a hole in the sky that led to heaven.
Nothing.
Just like always.
THE END
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THE FINAL WINTER
THE SNOW WAS JUST THE START...
On the night it begins snowing in every country of the world, an ordinary group of people gather at a rundown English pub. At first they assume the weather is just a random occurrence and nothing to worry about - but as the night goes on, weirder things happen, and they start to realise that something far more sinister is at hand. Something that none of them could ever have imagined.
By the end of the night, not everyone will make it, and those that do will wish they hadn’t.
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THE FINAL WINTER
(Special Edition)
By
Iain Rob Wright
Now this was the sin of Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
— Ezekiel 16:49-50
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event
— J. B. Priestley
Chapter One
Harry sipped his latest beer as yet another news update flashed across the pub’s dusty television. A female reporter appeared onscreen, enveloped by an over-sized pink ski-jacket and covered in snow. “Good evening,” she said politely, a slight shiver in her voice. “I’m Jane Hamilton with Midland-UK News. As you can clearly see, the nineteen-inches of snow Britain has witnessed during the previous 24-hours has left the nation’s transportation network in disarray.”
The camera panned to overlook a deserted motorway. A sky-blue transit van lay overturned and abandoned in its centre; its mystery cargo strewn across – and half-buried by – the snow.
The reporter let out a breath, which steamed in the air, and then continued. “Major roads have now been closed and the nation’s rail links have been terminated until further notice. Schools are closed, along with most nonessential businesses, while hospitals are doing their best to remain open. The current death toll of weather-related fatalities is now at twenty-seven and feared to rise. Emergency services have set up a helpline in order to assist those in need and to offer advice on how best to survive the current freezing temperatures. That number is being displayed at the bottom of the screen now.”
Harry shook his head. How long are they going keep this up? We get it, the weather’s bad. No need to act like it’s the end of the world.