#Chapter42 ARSENAL

She remembered it all: sitting in the daylight basement and finding the bullet in the box of her dead father's things, hearing her stepmother scream. She remembered the thing she saw outside the window, the thing that forced its way into the house as she ran out, ran out and found her stepmother's body; she remembered running for her life, crawling through the woodshed, finding the corpse of their dog, Chewy, on the others side; she remembered retrieving a rifle from the gun vault in the pole building… and she recalled with great clarity seeing the beast when it came inside, a monster very much like what Nina...