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Shelby Jones

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Cara & Amp help 3 guys being hunted by bigfoots, a Slay Inc. story

Weekly Contest #320

Things were heating up in the sasquatch world. Cara knew things were building, and getting worse. More sightings, more people being followed and harassed. More people disappeared, experienced hikers and hunters who knew how to get around in the woods. She was up to her pretty dark eyeballs in wendigo, and now needed to get someone else involved. Amp was a great fighter, just a wee bit crazy. Well sometimes off the wall insane. But she liked to work with him, and could depend on him. In a fight, he was the best to have your back. Tha...

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Amp and Cara help prisoners being hunted by hybrid dogmen, a Slay Inc. story

Weekly Contest #320

Cara is gathering her things for an assignment. It has been weeks since she has seen Amp, but she is happy that they have an assignment together again. Slay is being good to its slayers. She and Amp made a good team, always moving in tandem, and she knew Amp really liked her. He had a hard time hiding it.She put her brother Kalen’s slingshot in her jacket pocket. It was the first time she had touched anything of her brother’s since his death. Her emotions were still raw and jumbled over the biggest loss of her young life. It wasn’t just abou...

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Sophia and Bree (A Slay Inc. story)

Weekly Contest #318

Sophia wanted so much to keep saving people and fighting evil, but it was wearing on her and her friends. The constant exposure to evil was affecting her mental health, but she knew her daily life made her stronger. Sometimes she had to be strong for her friends, and her classmates, she had known pain and suffering, and abandonment and loneliness at a young age, and felt so sympathetic to those around her, even feeling their pain. She always wanted to help and could always put herself in the place of a hurting friend. So many of her sc...

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Light/house

Weekly Contest #311

Alien invasion horror storyCharacters: Catalina (mother, engineer, scientist) and Avi (young adult, skateboarder, parkour expert, hiker) Catalina needed time to think. Leaving her career as an engineer and astronomer, working on some of NASA’s and the Air Forces secret projects, she takes a job as a light house attendant to escape people and civilization. Years ago, she was involved in a shooting in a busy shopping center where 3 gunmen were randomly killing people. Because of her training as a young girl by her Special Forces ...

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Slay Inc.: Cara's Tribe and Their Sadness

Weekly Contest #311

CW: Human trafficking, attempted abduction, violence After returning from the recon job to the wendigo realm, Cara had to get back to work quickly. She heard from the tribal sheriffs that a few strange trucks were seen coming through town. Late at night and not stopping for gas or food. That was off pattern from normal, almost everyone would stop to pick up a few souvenirs or at least a snack. About 100 miles north of the reservation, a young girl had gone missing. Not native, a white girl, but it was alarming. So the town was on the lookout...

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Slay Inc. Sophia's Story

Weekly Contest #311

Slay Inc. : Sophia’s story Sophia, normal kid… When Sophia got up on Monday morning, she thought well, today is a good day... mom is coming to pick me up from school after the art club, a few precious hours before going home to her dad and selfish stepmom’s house, not her favorite place: she wanted to live with her mom and stepdad full time. She wanted so much to just have some hours away from the darkness. In her small town there was not much entertainment. a lot of crime, but not much else to do. Mom’s town was far better. ...

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Slay Inc. (partial submission from a 6 character story written for a tv or movie series)

Weekly Contest #306

SLAY Inc. You are going through life, not wanting to live, not wanting to die.Hope is elusive, buried, lost.You are a vagabond, a wanderer, a revenant.You have nothing figured out… And then the supernatural catches up with you… …and you have to wake up. The enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy.(John 10:10 ) My soul has dwelt too long With one who hates peace. 7 I am for peace; But when I speak, they are for war. Welcome to Slay Inc., where we risk life and li...

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