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Smell of Resin
by Joyce Mitchell

It was cold, so very cold, in this Kenworth logging truck and pitch black. I was crouched down, my muscles tensed, in the dark on the floorboards of this old piece of junk, my back pressed against the dashboard....

Surrounding me in my makeshift ‘prison’ were shadowy figures; miserable looking, spectral-like creatures from God only knows where. I begged the moon to stay hidden behind the clouds because I didn’t want to see these things – I could not make myself look outside.

I heard them scratching at the filthy, muck-covered window on the passenger side and howling. I imagined them salivating for my blood. How could these creatures change from empty air to substance in the blink of an eye? I don’t understand it. These beings were former customers of my great-grandfather’s old grocery store. How do I know this? I was told in my dreams! Why are they stuck here in this place, and why can’t they move on?

~~~When Loretta Lund was fourteen, her mother dropped her and her seven-year old sister off at their uncle’s old rock grocery store. She told them they’d be fine, just watch for the diamond-shaped cloud, inside the cloud would be a red-blinking light, her heart. But were they safe? Did she ever come back for them?

Loretta finds out she’s not the person she always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel - all because of Todd Lombardi. Todd is a mysterious guy who fell in love with Loretta the day she was dropped to the curb on Salem Road, offering her a handkerchief and BB Bats.

Things started happening right after Loretta's dreams, or nightmares, most frightening one when the logger climbed in her bedroom window, kidnapping her little sister, Lou Anne.