There's something about small towns that just makes them feel so safe and cozy...
Bob put his rig into a lower gear as he finished cresting a hill on a rural road somewhere in Ohio. It was early morning and a fog was settling in over a small town in the distance. He took another sip of his cheap coffee as he was approaching one of the few mileage signs he had seen in hours.  Knockemstiff - 20 mi. "Knockemstiff? What a dang stupid name for a town!" But as Bob drove on he couldn't help but feel an eerie atmosphere ahead starting to put weight on something deep down within him. That feeling quickly subsided as Bob proceeded to let out a tremendous fart that was followed by a slight of indigestion. 

So  far  we  just  have  Beth  and  ben  -  More   bios  are  in  the  works

Beth

Ben

     Beth had just finished her CNA program and wasn’t even close to being excited on her first week of the job. She really wasn’t too keen on the idea of being an assistant to anybody, let alone a nurse in the first place. Her parents insisted she at least tried. “Medicine runs in the family” they would say. “Don’t you want to make something of yourself.” “Don’t you want to be us” is what she really heard. Her father was a surgeon and her mother a doctor. So far all she had accomplished was a healthy dose of dependency on her parents success. She even got some sort of twisted satisfaction when they started getting super busy and stressed out at work. They were saying that some new flu strain had started spreading really fast and the side effects were quite unusual. All of these reasons were siphoning out all of her enthusiasm in her current position. When she found that there was an overflow of these new cases into her wing she almost walked out. Make it through the day she told herself. Just do this last IV She told herself.

    When the old fart lunged forward and sunk his teeth into the back of her arm her gut reaction was to haul off and color his right eye two shades to Sunday. Unsurprisingly her RN saw this and in the commotion, demanded Beth’s expulsion from the building. She was more than happy to oblige.
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​    The infection really didn’t take long to grab a hold of her and soon Beth found herself wandering aimlessly in the woods outside of town. She bumped into a rather large man wearing a rather filthy and outdated red shirt tending to a pile of ashes beside what she could only describe as “camp.” He seemed to be starring blindly into nothingness and didn’t blink for what she felt like was an eternity. She sat down beside him and he grunted in seemingly approval. As she sat there she felt as though she shared some sort of connection with this man. Although deep down she thought she had a family somewhere. Did she? Who were they? One thing she did know was she was working up quite the hunger. But, for what she just couldn’t put her teeth into...

Ben had been working at the electronics shop for six years now. A length of time he would describe to his friends as, “Way too long”.  He had held a number of menial jobs around town before this, each one just as unfulfilling as the last. He had always had aspirations of travel, but those aspirations always ended in the last bite of his microwave dinner or the void of some late night video game.

Ben had been single since he and his high school sweetheart split. Well, they didn’t exactly split, but when he walked in on his best friend and her swapping DNA, that’s how he took it. Since then his lady-life had been quite empty besides occasionally flirting with the woman he would encounter while walking to work. She worked at the hospital two blocks up and during their small talk on this unusually foggy morning she seemed surprisingly more open than normal. As Ben opened the store, turning on switch after switch, he convinced himself he finally had the courage to ask that girl out today. His fantasies were interrupted when his co-worker walked in 30 minutes late looking like hammered dog dookie. 

Ben followed him to the back to ask him why he was so late and if he was feeling okay. The man just stared at him blankly, sweaty and a little green around the gills. As Ben turned around, feeling ignored and defeated, his right shoulder was suddenly jerked back and a flash of heat shot through the side of his head.

Ben, bewildered and confused, ran out of the store with thoughts of assault and started wandering toward the hospital, holding his face in shock.

After an uncertain amount of time Ben forgot where he was going. In fact he didn’t even know where he was currently. He had forgotten about his ear and no longer felt any pain. His thoughts became fuzzy as he drifted and he became suddenly overwhelmed with feelings of loneliness. Something was changing. He needed something or someone. Anyone. He needed help. He needed...friends.

Hey  hey  you  sweet  lemonheaded  person  you!

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