"Whoa buddy, wait a sec," the guard said to Dick, who feared that he wouldn't make it past him with the gun tucked into his boot, only to find that he merely wanted to ask Dick whether he had seen the leggy blond that came into the courthouse before him.

He was first on the scene that night and for the rest of his life he had nightmares that revolved around the Biblical passage written on the wall in blood.

The house was a wreck, his clothes were covered in pet hair and his seven dogs of various sizes ruled his life, but Stan couldn't resist rescuing animals and so he gathered up his brood and went to get the eighth dog from a local shelter.

The aliens considered Earth a dumping ground, and so like an RV surreptitiously pumping out its waste into a camp ground lake, spacecraft from all over the Galaxy would swoop down into the planet's atmosphere let fly with the contents of a long journey and return to space.

Randell, stopping briefly to get a rock out of his shoe, soon lost site of his friends and wandered blindly though the woods, his fear and shouts rising steadily into the night.

Drinking in the tropically themed bar that overlooked the beach, he realized that in a town where there is nothing but tourists, if you hung out at the same bar more than once they treated you like a regular.

"Where do you think you're going?" he asked, his hand on Jasper's arm and the other reaching for his gun, "We ain't done yet pal, you still owe me for what happened at the bank."