The Welcome to another edition of Creeps and Peepers.

I'm Dan Cummins and I'll be sharing another original short story of the fictional

horror variety.

I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the ultimate experience.

Hope you enjoy this new nightmare that is a continuation of the previous nightmare fuel.

Picking up shortly after where that story ended, it also connects to Nightmare Fuel 11 if you want to get the very most out of it.

Time now for the tale of Unknown Collar 2, Power Outage.

Five days later,

Homicide Detective Blaine McGrath from the NOPD's 5th District was at the end of his rope.

He'd hold up inside of the half of the

duplex he rented on the corner of Poland and Burgundy in the bywater neighborhood of New Orleans.

He hadn't gone into his station in four days. He'd taken some PTO under the guise of a death in the family.

A sister he'd never mentioned before, never mentioned because she didn't

exist. A lazy lie, but it had worked, even though he didn't think his captain had really bought it.

He'd needed to get away from his fellow officers before he'd had his gun and badge taken from him.

The harassment from the unknown caller had become so intense, so quickly. He already hadn't

looked good when he'd come in the morning following the murder of Naomi Howard, a murder that

wasn't being treated as a murder because there were eyewitnesses who had watched her step in

front of that range rover with no one around her. But Blaine knew better. He'd felt 90% certain before she died that

something, he hadn't wanted to use the word supernatural yet, but couldn't think of a better term,

had been harassing her. Now he felt 100% certain what had killed Naomi was supernatural,

because the same thing had started harassing

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