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piece of shit.
    He rubbed his eyelids with the backs of his hands and finished the job.
    He was more ceremonious with Selina. He wrapped what was left of her in the tarp and placed the bundle into an old DVD player box. This he buried beneath a rose bush on the opposite side of the yard from the monster’s grave. When he’d finished that final chore, he sat beside the smaller mound of dirt for a long time, not wanting to return to the emptier-than-ever house.
    In the morning, he’d try to lose himself in his work. And on his way home, he’d stop by the hardware store and see about a new tub.

SIX
    Beneath the house, the creature listened to the father-thing destroy its brother, desecrate its mother’s corpse, and then cart off the bodies. It hunkered in the dark, waiting for the father-thing’s return. Its mother may have died bringing them into the world, and its brother trying to earn alpha dominance, but it would not join them in death.
    When the father-thing came back, it would ascend from the darkness, claim its place in the world, and light out for the hunt.





PRAISE FOR DANIEL PYLE
    DISMEMBER
    Dismember’s a fast-paced grindhouse-movie of a book with plenty of unexpected twists and turns and a fresh new crazy for a villain.  The late Richard Laymon would have been grinning ear to ear.
    —Jack Ketchum
    With Dismember , Daniel Pyle joins the select group of authors who can provide real chills and genuine surprises.  Taut, weird, and intriguing.
    —Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Dragon Factory and The Wolfman
    The tourniquet-tight plot and constant suspense keeps the pages flying. A solid, suspenseful thriller that enables readers to envision the movie it could become.
    — Publishers Weekly
    DOWN THE DRAIN
    Pyle's tight little monster tale packs a nasty wallop.
    —Michael Louis Calvillo, author of I Will Rise  and  As Fate Would Have It
    Horror should be fun.  Scary, of course…but above all, it should be fun.  Too many people seem to have forgotten that.  Well, Daniel Pyle has not forgotten.  With his novella, Down the Drain , Pyle has crafted a tale that evokes all the eye-popping strangeness and excitement that got me into horror in the first place.  I loved it, and I can guarantee you’ll never look at your bathtub the same again.
    —Joe McKinney, author of Dead City and Apocalypse of the Dead

Down the Drain is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons—living or dead—events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
    Copyright © 2010 by Daniel Pyle
    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechinical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.
    Blood Brothers Publishing
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    ISBN: 978-0-9828691-0-9
    Printed in the United States of America
    Cover Artwork Copyright © 2010 by Enoch Pyle
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