Excerpt, classified government report, agency name redacted, dated Monday March 28, 2016. “At approximately 8:20 PM Eastern Time on Friday March 25, 2016 Keyhole satellite 18 detected another short duration EMP event consistent with past observed events. An investigation team dispatched to the site, a luxury apartment located on Central Park West, where they determined another young woman, Sandy Walker age 24, vanished under mysterious circumstances during a severe thunderstorm, the victim’s current status and whereabouts unknown. This appears to be the latest in a related string of disappearances, the first of which occurred approximately 9:18 PM Pacific Time on November 8, 2013 in the mountains east of Seattle Washington. To date, reconnaissance satellites have detected a total of 187,512 EMP events worldwide consistent with this latest event.”

Holding the torch higher Sandy turned and peered out into the inky darkness behind her, almost sure this time that the faint sounds she’d heard weren’t just her imagination playing tricks on her. She still wasn’t sure just how she’d ended up within this bone scattered catacomb, one moment she’d been in her apartment getting dressed to meet a few friends at an Upper East Side nightclub, the next she’d awoken lying on the cold stone floor surrounded by the bones of the dead.

Sadly, dismissing the sounds she thought she’d heard as merely a product of an overactive imagination, Sandy was still looking the wrong way when the monstrous creatures coming out of the darkness swarmed over her and, ignoring her terrified screams, began to feast...