Sherriff Rasputin walked out of his office and into the warm Spring weather. He took a deep breath and adjusted his gun belt. Life in Kinship had been quiet of late; for a very long time. He should be grateful but it left him with an uneasy feeling and it left him with an uneasy feeling. It was.... well, strange that nothing weird, bizarre, unnatural, or dangerous had occurred for.... what? How long had it been since any walking corpses, destructive robots, giant monsters, or anything had attacked the town? There hadn't been many new arrivals of late either. The last arrival had been that lady reporter, Suzan. She had quite the tale to tell when she showed up.
Chuckling to himself he turned to head to the diner, his stomach was growling, and he was craving chili. He took a step and stopped when he heard someone calling his name from behind him. Turning around he saw Pendleton walking quickly towards him. He was probably trying to get in on the weekly poker game again.
Pendleton seemed happy, whihc was abnormal as he was usually morose, grumpy, and at times downright unpleasant.
"Sheriff, good to see you..." The sheriff noticed he was carrying a stack of papers Pendleton handed him one of them. Quickly reading what turned out to be a flyer, he grunted.
"There's going to be a town fair? Who's running it? There's hasn't been one since I arrived in town. Sure there are the fairgrounds but it's never used...."
"Well I've been talking to a few of the old timers, and there used to be one every year. It was a big deal apparently. People from all over attended..."
"WHAT?" People from all over? What people? From where?" Shrugging Pendleton seemed startled at the sheriff's reaction to the news.
"I don't know sheriff. You know as much as I do." Walking onwards, Pendleton called someone else's name. The sheriff didn't notice him leaving, as he was lost in thought. A town fair? He was going to find out what was going on. It may be harmless, but this was the town of Kinship, and... He lost his train of thought as sudden chill ran though his body.
Stepping off the curb he looked around, and glanced up in the sky. A few puffy clouds, and a strange looking bird circled high above. He looked in the direction of the fairgrounds, and saw dark storm clouds quickly rolling towards town.
"Humph... sheesh...."He jumped at a flash of lightning and the boom of thunder. The he heard screaming from down the street. He started running towards the screaming as a million things ran through his mind; the main one being that the quiet times were over, and that he would have to postpone eating a bowl of chili.
I need to revamp the graphic of the blog, do something new and different. I need to check links, and other blog maintainence type things. I'm having to relearn most of this.
My plan is still to write a novel, and hopefully a game setting based on Kinship.
Anyway, I'm glad I got this post done. Everyone have a good one, and stay safe and healthy.
Good to see you back, my friend!
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