#demon ducks

Early one morning, you notice in the nearby swamp a huge cypress tree, almost completely covered with Spanish Moss, uproot itself and shamble away. As it moves deeper into the swamp, it leaves bits of Spanish Moss on the young cypress trees it brushes past. So, that's how it works, you think to yourself.

Walking through a park, you come upon an old woman feeding ducks. As you move closer, you realize they are not like any duck you've ever seen before. These ducks look somewhat...demonic. You turn to ask the woman about them, but before you can speak, she shakes her head and gestures for you to leave. Some of the ducks notice you and begins waddling forward while hissing. As you back away, you notice one of the woman's feet are chained to the ground. You quickly retreat and decide it best to avoid the local ducks. Or whatever they are.

You awaken one morning after a severe Florida thunderstorm to find strange chunks of greenish goo spread about your yard, slowly dissolving into the earth. Within moments, the goo is gone and you wonder if you really saw it, or just imagined it. When you return home from work later that day, you find that your house is completely covered in vegetation that has grown impossibly fast. Twisted within the vines and branches are human bones brought up from the ground. You try to clear the vegetation, but it oozes that same green goo you saw in the morning, and the vines grow back right before you eyes. You manage to pull the bones out, and after reburying them in your back yard, decide that's good enough.

There is a foreboding dirt road near your home that leads off into the swampy wilderness. Sometimes. Other times, it is not there at all, just an unbroken wall of woods. You see vehicles drive down this transient road from time to time, but you've never seen one return.

When driving by a local cemetery, you notice several graves and wrought iron fences within are severely damaged. It doesn't appear that someone was trying to get in, but that someone, or something, was trying to get out.

While doing microfilm research for a college assignment, you stumble across a 30-year-old newspaper article regarding a young couple wanted by police for multiple homicides. The photo is of your parents when they were teenagers.

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