Friend's List by Rob Watson Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Friends
List
by
Rob Watson
Genre:
Suspense, Thriller
My
friends are being slaughtered one by one. Decapitated. Burned alive.
Chopped to pieces.
The
hooded killer has vowed to keep murdering people I care about until
they’re all dead, their profile pics on social media replaced with
photos of their mutilated bodies. The police can’t catch him. They
have no leads.
The
horror is making the visions come back—the fire that took my
parents, leaving my twin Alex and me alive, but broken.
The
hooded killer won’t stop until I’m completely shattered. He’ll
eat away at my mind, heart, and soul until there’s nothing left. No
one left to love, no one left to trust, and nothing I can be sure is
real.
Dr.
Cross thinks a trip back to the place my parents died will stop the
visions. Alex is afraid it’s a trap.
But
I know the hooded killer won’t hurt me. That’s not his game.
His
game is much deeper. Much darker.
The
music’s volume lowered and knocking echoed through the speakers.
The words “Someone’s Knocking” appeared
next to the door graphic. Kimberly closed her blog window and moved
her avatar to the peephole. Another
dialogue box appeared, inside which Kimberly typed: Who’s
there? The
peephole widened and an avatar of a hooded figure appeared. A
dialogue box popped up next to the avatar, and inside the box
appeared the screen name IWNTUDED. Kimberly
typed: Do I know you? IWNTUDED
responded: Yes. But not the way u think u do. “Seriously,
this is so not the time for this,” Kimberly muttered to herself.
She typed: Doug, is that you? Look, I know you still love me,
but it’s over. It’s nothing you did, it’s just that I’m going
through so many changes right now. She sighed. I’m
sorry. Tell you what. I’ll give you a weekend of goodbye sex when
I get back, okay? After
a few uncomfortable moments passed, IWNTUDED
responded: Sounds like fun, but I’m not Doug. “What the hell?”
Kimberly whispered as the ambient light from the laptop’s screen
eerily illuminated her pretty face. She stared at the screen and
typed: Who is this? There
was a long moment before IWNTUDED responded: The
last person you’ll ever see. “Okay,
fuck this,” Kimberly blurted. She clicked the “KEEP OUT” icon
next to Iwntuded’s screen name, and the “LOCK DOOR” icon on the
keyhole graphic. “So
long, creep.” She picked up the Starbucks cup sitting on her
Abnormal Psychology textbook, took a sip, spun her chair around, and
reclined with her back to the computer. While
she sat there thinking how much easier life would be if it was this
simple to get rid of people in the real world, the word “Unlock”
appeared on the door graphic, and the Iwntuded avatar entered the
room and approached the Kimber avatar. Finished
musing over the inherent advantages of Cybering, Kimberly turned back
toward the laptop screen and was dumbstruck when she saw Iwntuded’s
avatar standing next to hers. “What
the hell?” She placed her Starbucks cup on the desk and then typed:
How did you get in here? The
Iwntuded avatar held up a key graphic, and then IWNTUDED
typed: I have a key. Kimberly’s
heart skipped a beat. She sank down in her chair and wrapped her arms
tightly around herself. Should
I be scared of this creep? She shook her head. Of course not,
this is just some acne covered kid with nothing better to do on
Datenight USA, or some overweight, balding pervert who gets off on
scaring the shit out of young girls. He
fear morphed to anger and she sat up straight in her chair. Look,
jerkoff, she typed, the Roommates website
recorded your IP address when you logged on. So get out of here and
leave me the fuck alone before I report your perverted ass. IWNTUDED
replied: Okay. But first, will u do me a favor? Kimberly
typed: What? May
I have a sip of that coffee? What
the fuck? Kimberly
typed: What coffee? After
a few tension-filled moments, IWNTUDED replied:
The Starbucks next to your keyboard. The
words on her laptop screen leapt out at Kimberly as if they were in
3D. She glanced at the Starbucks cup, after which she jumped to her
feet and scanned nervously about her dimly lit apartment. Oh
my God – someone’s here! But how did he get in? And where
is he now – watching me? Just
as she reached for the phone to dial 911, Kimberly spotted the webcam
atop her computer’s monitor and a wave of relief washed over her.
“You little hacker.” She
sat back down and yanked the USB cable from the webcam. “Show’s
over, jerk wad.” She smirked at her laptop screen and held her
middle finger up to Iwntuded’s avatar. That
wasn’t very nice. Kimberly
replied: What – ending your little peep show? IWNTUDED
typed: No, giving me the finger. Kimberly
jumped to her feet. She glanced wildly around the room and then back
at the monitor. Fight or flight mode started setting in as she typed:
Who are u and what the fuck do u want? I
told u – I’m the last person you’ll ever see. As for what I
want …
On
the opposite side of the unlit apartment, a closet door quietly
opened. A hooded figure emerged holding a smartphone in one hand and
a sixteen-inch hunting knife in the other. While Kimberly sat staring
at her computer screen, the figure typed on the smartphone’s
keypad, and the reply displayed on Kimberly’s laptop screen: It’s
all in my name. What’s my name, Kimberly? Wide-eyed,
her hands trembling, Kimberly typed: IWNTUDED. IWNTUDED
instantly replied: That’s what I want! Kimberly
studied her tormentor’s username with the urgency her situation
demanded. Then, in a dread-filled whisper, she read aloud,
“I … want … you … dead.”
Rob Watson was born in Santa Monica, California. He is married and is the father of three children. He is the owner of Damaged Psyche Productions. He is a horror/sci-fi fanatic and has been ever since early childhood. He has been imagining and writing stories for as far back as he can remember. Some of his idols are Rod Serling, Steven King, David Cronenberg, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, John Carpenter, Wes Craven, and Dan Curtis. Rob studied film and creative writing at Long Beach City College and California State University, Long Beach, after which he spent a couple of years working on movie production crews (as set PA, second assistant director, boom, etc.). Since then, he has written almost a dozen feature length screenplays (mostly horror and/or sci-fi) as well as numerous short stories and scripts. He has two original screenplays currently in pre-production and has written several "work-for-hire" scripts.
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