Tales From the Loop

A Snowball’s Chance (Holly, Alex, Leslie, Mike K, Thomas) Monday, 29 Dec, 1986 - Holiday break with wet snow blanketing the ground as the kids head to their Pierson Salvage hangout to chat about their best Christmas gift. Stacy, 13yo Popular Kid (Holly): rode her new bike while beaming with pride about her pink/yellow windbreaker. But she quickly put on a worried face as she thought about her brother Eric waking with a bad morning experience from his Leukemia treatments. Alvin, 14yo Computer Geek (Alex): arrived with large headphones covering his ears as he rocked to music blasting his eardrums. He unplugged the headset to share music from his new cassette tape: “Good Life” by the Detroit Inner City group. Lisa, 14yo Bookworm (Leslie): swayed to the music as she tried to harmonize with her own mini-soundboard. Johnny Fire, 14yo Rocker (Mike K): excitedly showed off his new game, “Call of Cthulhu. It’s got monsters...

Hook : The old, abandoned Marsh house sits alone on the outskirts of Boulder City. Its chilling past is told in whispers around the campfires late at night. Murder, suicide, ghosts. Every year around Halloween, it becomes the topic of dares and displays of bravado. Two kids went missing last night. Did the Marsh ghosts finally claim another victim?   Oct 31 st , 1986 - the Witching Hours: Joshua Hutsenpilar , 1 4yo Bookworm (Julian): Joshua strapped the last piece of painted cardboard armor onto his arm as he stumbled out the door to join the other kids trick-or-treating (TOT). [Tinker 0] As he stopped to pick up a piece when it fell off, Randy and his bully crew chided, “What are you supposed to be?!” Joshua proudly claimed, “Optimus Prime… the Transmorpher I bought last summer.” Darrel corrected, “You mean ‘Optimus Dork’.” Randy leaned in to whisper, “You’re too old for TOTing. Wanna join us TPing some houses?” Joshua declined, “But I can share my can...