Death Grader
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When a black road grader begins stalking the streets of Schenectady, NY, its residents soon find that the road to Hell is paved ... in blood!
Detective Rowe: Let's go back now—to when you first saw it move. Is that all right?
Westbrook: Sure. Like I said, I'd just woken up from the dream when I heard it, just rumbling across the field where they'd been working on the road—
Detective Rowe: The I-890–North Schenectady Corridor.
Westbrook: Sure, I guess. So I went to my window—you know, to see what was going on, and saw it sputtering to a stop near the office trailers and other equipment—which were all covered in snow—just shutting down with a rattle, like it had been running for a long time. That's when I first noticed it, how clean it was—there was no snow on it at all. Like—
Detective Rowe: But it was there when you went to sleep, isn't that correct?
Westbrook: Yes, of course. Covered in snow. It hadn't moved since December, when they had that accident—you know, where the worker was killed.
Detective Rowe: Clarke. The foreman. I seem to recall they had several accidents; including when they rammed into that layer of concrete.
Westbrook: (inaudible)
Detective Rowe: What?
Westbrook: The Meyers. James and Mia. That's where the concrete was at. I used to talk with them sometimes, before the accid—
Detective Rowe: You knew them?
Westbrook: Before the traffic accident. The one with the semi. Last summer.
Detective Rowe: Yes, I seem to recall that too. Something about them accelerating out of control—
Westbrook: I think they did it.
Detective Rowe: I'm sorry?
Westbrook: The bugs.
Detective Rowe: The … bugs.
Westbrook: (inaudible): In the concrete. Where the Meyers buried them. At least, until the road grader came along.
Wayne Kyle Spitzer
Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author and low-budget horror filmmaker from Spokane, Washington. He is the writer/director of the short horror film, Shadows in the Garden, as well as the author of Flashback, an SF/horror novel published in 1993. Spitzer's non-genre writing has appeared in subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. His recent fiction includes The Ferryman Pentalogy, consisting of Comes a Ferryman, The Tempter and the Taker, The Pierced Veil, Black Hole, White Fountain, and To the End of Ursathrax, as well as The X-Ray Rider Trilogy and a screen adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows.
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Statement of Ms. Eleanor Elle
Westbrook (January 17th, 3:30 PM, interviewed by Detective Ollie Rowe)
Detective Rowe: I want you to relax, Ms. Westbrook—is it okay if I call you Eleanor?
Westbrook: I prefer Elle.
Detective Rowe: Elle. Now I want you to relax ... and tell me about the first time you saw the road grader actually move. Can you do that for me?
Westbrook: Sure. It was the day after Christmas—the 26th, I think. It was a Thursday. I remember it because, well, besides the grader moving for the first time, it was movie night in the community room. Frozen II. Which—
Detective Rowe: At Farmington Hall. The orphanage. Is that correct?
Westbrook: Yes, but—we don’t call it that. An orphanage, that is. The nuns don’t like it.
Detective Rowe: But you were home?
Westbrook: Yes. In my room. I’d had a terrible nightmare and was just waking up, when I heard—
Detective Rowe: Talk about that a little. Your nightmare. Do you remember it?
Westbrook: No. Not really. Just bits and pieces. I remember ...
Detective Rowe: Yes?
Westbrook: I remember ... it had the road grader in it. And it—it killed somebody. It ran over him with its front tires and then ...
Detective Rowe: Yes?
Westbrook: I’d rather not say.
Detective Rowe: But I’m asking you to, Elle. It’s okay. It ran over him with its front tires and ...?
Westbrook: And then it