Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Parking

[froodle]

“SPACE!” said the flashing red sign outside of Eerie’s only multi-level car park. A line of slow-moving cars inched along the road outside, the drivers staring fixedly ahead, their fingers tapping an impatient staccato rhythm against the steering wheel.

“What about there?” said Simon.

Marshall shook his head, running one reassuring hand across the scarred and pitted dashboard of his third-hand vehicle. The car, which had begun to shudder and whine as the tall cinderblock tower loomed closer on the horizon, settled beneath the soothing motion, the elderly engine subsiding into a smooth purr.

“Trust me,” he said. “I’d rather park her at my folks’ place and walk.”

“Haunted?” asked Simon, twisting in the passenger seat to get a better look as they drove by.

Marshall started to shake his head again, then stopped.

“Maybe,” he conceded. “I don’t know. The fluorescents blink on and off like they’re a prop in a horror movie, but the whole structure stinks of pee so I never felt the need to stick around and investigate.”

“It’s not haunted,” said Dash. He was sitting in the back, feet up, heavy black boots smearing mud and mud-snake venom all over Marshall’s freshly-valeted car seats. “The elevators don’t work and there are spiders the size of small dogs breeding in the stairwells, but it’s down to crappy maintenance, not Casper and friends.”

“Huh,” said Simon, giving the car park a final, disappointed glance.

Marshall was listening to something, words buried in the hiss and pop of the automobile’s badly-tuned radio. He nodded.

“Apparently sometimes when the barricade goes up, the whole interior vanishes and it opens into the vacuum of space,” he relayed. “Just an endless sea of blackness, with the bloated and frozen corpses of a thousand Saturday shoppers floating in the dark amidst crumpled bits of metal.”

Dash rolled his eyes.

“Your car needs to spend less time with you,” he said. “She’s starting to get weird.”





Microwave-verse

Bonfire by froodle, in which Pinocchio is ruined forever

Gingerbread by froodle, in which there is a witch in the Eerie Woods

Leaves by froodle, in which plantlife finds Marshall entirely too enticing

Offspring by froodle, in which there are dragons

Based on Your Previous Purchases by froodle, in which Mars should really pay attention to Amazon's reccomendations

Housework by froodle, in which a rota cannot be agreed upon

Breakfast by froodle, in which Dash's attempts at cookery do not go well

Ghost in the Machine by froodle, in which a new laptop opens an old wound

Consequences by froodle, in which an encounter with leprechauns leaves the boys very tired indeed

The Microwave by froodle, in which Andrea Fantucci returns to Eerie after a considerable absense

The Eldritch Abomination in the Room by froodle, in which the microwave is most definitely not discussed

Basic Household Maintenance by froodle, in which manticores are inconsiderate houseguests

Torrential by froodle, in which there is a storm, and the boys eat ice-cream

Linens by froodle, in which Dash X makes a bed

Night Music by froodle, in which Simon is woken by a nocturnal visitor

In For The Night by froodle, in which Dash refuses to leave the house

Hound by froodle, in which Simon makes a friend

Errands by froodle, in which Simon has a to-do list

Waterlogged by froodle, in which Eerie experiences heavy rainfall

Wildlife by froodle, in which Simon and Marshall go to the beach

Rainbow by froodle, in which Dash fails to properly appreciate Michael Flatley

Jackolantern by froodle, in which the local pumpkin patch has a problem