AnthonyGrimm

 Getting stuck on the side of the road sucks.  Getting stuck in the middle of nowhere really sucks.  But, getting stuck in the middle of nowhere right as a blizzard hits is just fate kicking you while you're down.  In retrospect, it wasn't the best idea to drive my cheap, old, beaten down Honda cross country, but I didn't have much choice. I'd recently gotten wind of a series of murders up north that just screamed, "HEY!  There are monsters here."  Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not a hero.  I don't go around fighting off the dark and defeating the forces of evil.  I'm just curious.  Besides, I doubt I could even do anything to stop this.  It'

     Cr-r-r-r-r-r-rack! The silence of the room was shattered in one violent second. Gears jumped to life and began lacing together and wrenching apart after their extended rest. The years of rust were ground of with each consecutive turn, coating everything in a dull orange dust. It was only after several dragging minutes of painful scraping that the metal was finally worn smooth and the harsh scratching was replaced by a long series of low and rapid clicks. The noise began to fill the room in a drone while each gear spun on; connected in a constantly moving scheme, but left to toil alone in silence save for the ever-present noise of their o