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Welcome listeners. All J's little tied
up at the moment, so I will

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just introduce this week's installment of our
anthology as promised, Part two of the

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Things in the Valley by E.
J. Miller. Grandpa and this town.

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Stupid old man with his stupid stories. Mutant turkeys. Really, he

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couldn't think of anything better to try
and scare me with. Mutant turkeys.

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Didn't go with the where wolves or
the ghost. Too old to probably even

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know what slender Man is, he
went for mutant turkeys. Couldn't even make

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a cool couldn't even make it.
Turkeys from space had to had to do

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this whole government toxic waste, conspiracy
crap. Stupid boomer mutant turkeys with razor

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sharp beaks and talents who so scary? Old man has me wake up at

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the dawn and then forces me to
listen to some story that will supposedly save

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my life if I run into these
mutant turkeys. I wonder if they're like

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those turtles my old man used to
watch on t when he was a kid.

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What were they called, Oh yeah, teenage mutant ninja turtles, teenage

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mutant ninja tchero keys, teenage mutant
ninja chero keys. Maybe the turkeys no

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kung fu so lame teenage mutant ninja
charic keys, teenage mutant ninja chtero keys.

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And here I am doing him a
favor, doing everyone a favor.

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I have to hike five miles from
town just to get to the clearing.

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Grocery stores are low on food and
meet because the supply chain issues. The

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factory shut down, so everyone's low
on money. I don't know where all

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the game has gone that they used
to hunt. My old man should be

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doing this. He up and left. Haven't seen that over a year.

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He said the night before he was
going off hunting the next morning. But

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last the last time I talked to
him. The next morning he was gone,

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took his gun to make a show
of it. I guess dump left

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his truck, though at least Mom
was able to sell that for the money.

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Just ridiculous. Five miles just to
get to the clearing and then into

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the wood and over the ridge,
drop into the valley. Even brought wire

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cutters to cut through the fence,
which will at least make it easier should

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I get a deer, I can
just drag the body through the hole.

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In the fence. It's gonna be
a long drag home, though, and

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that's only if I can actually hit
anything with this ancient shotgun. Here we

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are at the clearing, just beyond
the pines as a fence. Wow,

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first time I've been this close to
it. It's got to be seven feet

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with barbed wire at the top.
It just stretches for miles. They really

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want to keep people out, stupid
government types. Put the barbed wire on

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the wrong side. Unless just gonna
get my hand a little wire cutters and

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cut a little hole and then we
go. Damn, I haven't seen anything.

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I mean, not even one small
crater. No squirrels, no pheasants,

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no nothing. I haven't even heard
anything, not even a bird.

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It's like someone hitting nature's mute button. But I have seen some well worn

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paths. Something is coming through.
But what it's the lake and the miss

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it's black. He was telling me
the truth. It's like this thin black

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miss ain't even right over the lake. I'm out because if that after missus

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real those where are you? I
heard you? Where the are you me?

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You're behind that bush? You a
little one or a big one.

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I see your red eye down there. Let me, see you how old

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this I'm not waiting loving them scattered, living them little ones, shit little

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black turkeys with red eyes and that
beak like a like a hook, and

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those talents, those claws. The
little ones are real. The the miss

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is real. Nothing black miss.
I'm gone. This is hafing wrong.

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I'm getting that out of here.
Oh crap, those those those sound like

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the bigger ones. Not for off
either. I just have to have to

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make it to the whole offense.
No way the big ones can make it

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if you go whole it almost say
almost sare mom? Mom, Thank god

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you're safe. Thank god you're safe. Are you at work? Stay there,

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stay there? Do not? Yeah, yeah I'm safe. I'm saying

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I'm safe. Yeah, yeah,
I've seen him. I've seen him.

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I've seen him too. They must
have. They must have followed me back

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into town. I went hunting.
Grandpa sent me into the valley. Though

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I know, I know, I
know, I know he told me.

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He told me, but it sounds
crazy. It sounded so crazy. I

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didn't believe him. So stop crying, Stop crying. I'll tell you.

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I'll tell you. I went to
the clearing and I cut a whole of

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fence to get through. I walked
down off the ridge and down to the

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lake. I saw it, the
mist. Yeah, the mist is still

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on the lake. Have you seen
it. It's so much sed up,

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this thin black fog that just hovers
over the lake. And when I was

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there, I saw the little ones
lurk and behind a bush, just watching

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me. I fired a shot to
spook them. Let me finish, Let

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me finish, let me finish,
and it just sent a bunch of them

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running. The little ones they were
just they were just as Scrampan described,

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and I got I got so scared
with the mist and the and the little

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ones. I started running. And
that's when the big ones I could hear

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there. They're calls to each other, they're they're stomping right after me.

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I couldn't tell how many. I
dropped the gun and I just sprinted for

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the whole in the fence. I
guess the I guess the fence couldn't withstand

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all of them, not all at
once. I heard a crash as I

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ran down around the down around the
bend towards home. They're all here now,

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though, aren't they. I can
I can see them outside. I

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lost of how many you can.
You can hear the screaming all throughout town

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though. I saw a few of
the little ones take out the Singer's cat

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across the street. A pack of
the medium sized ones. They took out

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old Lady Singer. I couldn't do
nothing to help. I dropped the gun.

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I didn't have nothing. I know. The big ones, though,

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I haven't seen any of them up
by the house just yet. They must

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have went directly for town center.
I'm guessing they just kept going towards the

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sound of people, all those people
at the diner, at church, at

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the Little League ball field, all
that screaming, MA, what are we

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gonna do? Who? Who do
we call? Who do we who do

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we call? For help? Mama? Are you there, My mamm