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    The Shopping Cart People
    The Shopping Cart People
    The Shopping Cart People
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    The Shopping Cart People

    By Terry Hayman

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    A suburb plunges into a night of horror when its usually-invisible underclass rises up with supernatural strength, ferocity, and a hunger for revenge.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFiero Publishing
    Release dateOct 22, 2010
    ISBN9781452320649
    The Shopping Cart People
    Author

    Terry Hayman

    Raised in five different countries and currently living with his family in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Terry is a full-time writer and actor who accepts struggle, believes in goodness, and seeks truth always.

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      Book preview

      The Shopping Cart People - Terry Hayman

      A suburb plunges into a night of horror when its usually-invisible underclass rise up with supernatural strength and ferocity, hungry for revenge.

      THE SHOPPING CART PEOPLE

      a short story by

      Terry Hayman

      Copyright © 2010 by Terry Hayman

      Published by Fiero Publishing at Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The Shopping Cart People

      Terry Hayman

      When he first saw the hag, Jer didn’t know she signaled the end of the world, just that she was heading for the last three jars of on-sale peanut butter.

      He flattened himself against the Shreddies shelf and clicked CALL on his walkie-talkie. P.b. alert - aisle 12. Major sale. Inventory low. Repeat - low. Over.

      Copy, bughead, came back his stepsister’s scratchy voice. I’ll tell Dad.

      Yes!

      But before Jer could even stuff the walkie-talkie into the back of his shorts, the hag had squeaked her shopping cart to a stop in front of the peanut butter shelf. Despite the summer heat, she wore three sweatshirts, a tatty wool coat, a Mariners ball cap, black woolen gloves. Her lips sucked in and out like a carnivorous pudding. Her hand quavered out...

      No!

      Jer dove forward but she swung her cart, a rusted thing full of stuffed green garbage bags, in front of him and glared.

      Jer jumped back and waved frantically at a clerk carrying empty boxes out of the next aisle. Hey!

      The clerk lowered the boxes. Yo.

      This...uh...this.... Jer swung his finger around.

      The woman was gone. No noise. No jars taken. And suddenly Em and her dad, Steve, Jer’s stepdad

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