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more careful.”
But
, he thought,
the Purple Zombie Rats of the Spectroverse are still on the loose! Tomorrow. Tomorrow, I’ll get them.
    Billy’s mother kissed him on the cheek, rose, and turned off the light.
    “Sweet dreams, my little man.”
    “Goodnight, Mom.”
    She closed his bedroom door.
    Exhausted from his hectic day, Billy fell asleep immediately.
    He dreamt.
    He dreamt of the Purple Zombie Rats of the Spectroverse (again!) and the Stone Ghouls of the Bottomless Pit and the Fireflies of Doom and the Giant Vampire Mosquitoes of Creepy Island and the Screaming Hulk of Neospace and the Lurking Leeches of the Forbidden Zone.
    On the night table next to his bed, there was a fresh stack of white paper and, in a wooden mug, a bunch of well-sharpened colour pencils.
    Tomorrow, another busy day awaited Billy, the monster hunter. He would be ready.
    Let evil beware!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Claude Lalumière ( lostmyths.net/claude ) is the author of the story collection
Objects of Worship
(ChiZine Publications 2009) and the chapbook
The World’s Forgotten Boy and the Scorpions from Hell
(Kelp Queen Press 2008). He has edited eight anthologies, including the Aurora Award nominee
Tesseracts Twelve: New Novellas of Canadian Fantastic Fiction
(Edge 2008), and he writes the Fantastic Fiction column for
The Montreal Gazette
. With Rupert Bottenberg, Claude is the co-creator of Lost Myths, which is both a live show and an online archive updated weekly at lostmyths.net .