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    A Day in the Unlife
    A Day in the Unlife
    A Day in the Unlife
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    A Day in the Unlife

    By Andrew E. Moczulski

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    The world of the supernatural is a place of intense horror and blood-chilling danger. Dark, twisted monsters stalk among humanity from the shadows, seeking only to devour us.

    Seems like somebody should make some money from all that, right?

    Enter Eric Margrave, semi-professional monster hunter (He'd be a professional, but they really don't have a certification process for this sort of thing.). When the things that go bump in the night start actually knocking on the door, he's the one who serves them their walking papers... for a nominal fee. Prices negotiable. No demons, please.

    In this short, Eric has taken on a job from the residents of a little town in the middle of nowhere, who find themselves with a minor case of the next town over disappearing. To some this would be a sign it was time to pack up and leave the diner; to Eric, it just means time buckle down and make a quick buck doing what he does best: The judicious application of extreme violence.

    Just another day at the office.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew E. Moczulski
    Release dateOct 10, 2012
    ISBN9781301285099
    A Day in the Unlife
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    Andrew E. Moczulski

    Long-time writer, short-time trying to sell it! See some of my above links for examples of non-professional fanwork; they aren't to the same standards of professional quality as what I will post for sale, but they give a decent idea of my style. I hope to be around for a long time, so please, I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I enjoyed writing them.

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      A Day in the Unlife - Andrew E. Moczulski

      A Day in the Unlife

      A Slayer of Evil (Prices Negotiable) Story

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      Andrew E. Moczulski

      Copyright 2012, Andrew E. Moczulski

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      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination and used fictitiously.

      I would like coffee with fifteen sugars, please, I said cheerfully. Also toast.

      The waitress, who might have had a hearing problem, I don't know, blinked a few times. Fifteen...?

      Fifteen, I said, nodding my confirmation. I like sugar. It's sweet. And also toast!

      Fift-

      "Coffee and toast, yes. All of the sugar," I confirmed.

      This is why I hate small-town diners. The customer is supposed to be always right, dammit, but they never remember that.

      The woman shrugged. I get that a lot.

      Oh, hey! If you see a person who looks deeply haunted and jumpy, he's probably here to talk to me, I said. I had never seen my current client, but they tended to be haunted and jumpy. Career risk of being Eric Margrave: Professional Monster Hunter. Pretty much anyone who is hiring me (And I get more than you'd expect.) is hiring me because something nasty has them scared out of their mind. It's like most of these people had never seen a hideous flesh-eating death creature before, honestly.

      … Okay, yes, they hadn't, and I should be glad they hadn't because it kept me in business. Shut up. I don't need your help to realize I'm a jerk, I figured it out years ago.

      Anyway.

      My current job had me waiting for a client in a little cafe in a little truck stop off of a big interstate highway in a big state it was running through. The big state was Texas. I don't know why I didn't just say that before and... look, never mind, you know me, I ramble. The point was: Cafe. Truck stop. Texas interstate. The service was lousy and the name was uninspired, ('Ron's'? Just 'Ron's'? Seriously?) but if nothing else the coffee smelled decent. More importantly, my current client knew where it was and so did my GPS, so it was as good a place as any to meet. I'd offered to meet him at his home, but he had been very adamant about staying away from there.

      God, I hoped his house wasn't haunted. I'd had my fill of ghosts recently, thank you very much.

      The bell over the door dinged a little ding. A very slender, skittish-looking man with black hair and big, haunted green eyes entered Ron's. He looked pale, with huge bags under his eyes, as though he had not slept in days due to the extreme fear that chased him every moment of every day, denying him even the tiniest respite.

      I smiled cheerfully and waved him over. Yup, that was the look of my typical clients, all right. Didn't even

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