Short Story for right now.
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Richelle Muddy is a 19 year old girl, with a big secret her parents and older three siblings are murderers. Wanted by police, FBI and so many more, the Muddy family have been wanted for 17 years now.
Her father alone killed 10 people, boys and girls with blonde hair and blue eyes around the ages of 15 to 20.
Her mother killed 12, older beautiful women with long hair and brown or green eyes.
Her older sister Ruby killed little kids, 5 no make that 7 kids around the ages of 5 to 10.
Her twin brothers Jordan and Jon killed 6 girls each in their own special way. Raping them before killing and letting Richelle bury the bodies.
Richelle never killed, so her family makes sure that it's her job to get rid of all the bodies. Her whole family killed 41 people and specially like killing a few police officers in the past, when she was younger.
Her life will get even more dangerous when she buries a body near by a town three hours away from their home in the woods. The police are now investigating the area and the Muddy family's house is on the map once more.
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"Bloody hell, get the kids and have them start running to our hide out in the woods, honey", my father yelled as he ran inside the house. "Their coming here".
"The bloody police?" She asked.
'Finally', I thought. As I walk into the kitchen and grabbing my big backpack.
"Yes.. go".
"You heard your father... get your bags and start running".
Jordan, Jon and Ruby all grabbed their bags and started to the woods in seconds. I smiled, as I followed behind.
'Now, my plan starts... It's time for them to lose this battle.. time for me to have a better life. After I do my part behind bars'.
Antique store owner Liz brings home a Victorian taxidermy hound from auction, unwittingly unleashing dark forces on her wife and son.
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Nat Loman has finally married the love of her life, Liz, and is getting used to her role as stepmother to Liz's 5-year-old son, Liam. The Loman family runs a bustling antique business so they attend a sale where a striking, black taxidermied hound is up for auction. Liz picks it up for the business, but it ends up being stored in their home, where Nat notices strange things occurring. She quickly discovers the past residents had died violently. Then she hears from a friend about the myth of "the devil's dog", a hound that perches in the shadows, tearing families apart from the inside. Soon, people around the Lomans are dying, and Liz is changing, darkening. It's up to Nat to save the woman she loves from the darkness closing in, and to save Liam from danger no matter what she has to sacrifice.
[[Winner of the 2018 Wattys "Hidden Gems" category]]
[[word count: 60,000-70,000 words]]