The experiences I endured left me shaken for a long time to come, I spent most of my life as a loner and never got married. As soon as I could I left Chamberlain never to return again until October 1999. Throughout the 1980s I worked mainly in computer programming. After graduation Brian Fields acquired employment at a construction company that his uncle Matt worked for. He then spent decades working for the construction industry ultimately becoming a CEO. Brian also married on the spring of 1984 and invited me to be the best man at his wedding.

Another wedding that I attended, this one two years earlier was that of Squeezy Delgano. A nice girl who was frequently picked on by Christine Hargensen and other girls because of her plump appearance, she met a lovely man named Juan Cortez ultimately settling down as a mum and housewife and enjoyed lifelong happy marriage.

Everything was calm for next decade or so until Christmas Eve 1989 when Eastern Seaboard Airways Flight ESA579*1 crashed upon landing at Boston Airport due to technical error and breaking up. 54 of the 207 passenger died one of them was Henry Stample.

Aunty rose passed away of ill health in 1991. In 1995 dad had a stroke and passed away 2 years later. Also in 1997 the family found it very difficult to look after my mom as in her old age she was beginning to suffer from dementia and thus had to be checked into a retirement home. She passed away in the winter of 1999.

About late September 1999 I was forced to return to Chamberlain or what was left of the derelict town in order to deal with aspects of my inheritance and the old house and land that my parents left behind to me and my younger brother Ian. Upon arriving I began receiving a series of fairly disturbing but vague news. First there was a report about an employee being killed at a theatre or cinema when a car mysteriously ran through the wall and then ran him over. Second there was a tragedy at a classic and vintage car show. A crane was lifting a car off a flatbed to be placed on an exhibit or a stand, but the chains broke while that was happening and the car ended up landing right on top of an employee who happened to be standing right underneath it *2. Both individuals had identical names to students of the senior class of 1979 Ewan High. Also a certain Ethan Willow was killed in Boston after being run over by the 579 Bus.

The crunch probably came on October 14, 1999 when I picked up a copy of the Motton Daily Courier* with the following headlines "25 dead in party fire tragedy."*3

Even before the facts could be established perhaps due to my precognitive abilities I determined correctly that the person responsible for this was another individual who possessed identical abilities to Carrie White.

Whether its all my imagination or not these incidents now leads me to believe that death is back and on the hunt again. The fact that I have just learned that someone at Brian's construction company has just been killed in a gruesome accident and that there is a recent topic on the news on the tragic consequences of faulty electrical appliances. But the biggest shock is that in the case study examined was that of a mom and housewife who was electrocuted by a faulty toaster. Her name was Felicia Cortez.

1* 579 comes from May 1979. There is no airline called Eastern Seaboard Airways

2* These events are a nod to another Stephen King novel and film "Christine".

3* See "The Girl in the Green Dress" another story by B&T

Author's After word

This story is the first to use a concept I'd like to call recycling. That is using bits and part from my older stories to build a present one. It may be a bit controversial but it is useful in saving time in formulating new ideas to drive the plot forward.

Recycled ideas in this story are

In Carrie : Parallels, Margaret tries to stab Carrie at Hospital but is caught and her action are sufficient to prove that she is insane and in need of psychiatric care.

In Carrie : A New Generation, Joey Kolintz is killed in an accident involving a faulty home appliance.