Whispers are circulating through a small town about sightings of a mysterious figure along the river dressed in black. The figure is reported to leave burnt black footprints on the ground wherever he walks, and anything liquid that he touches turns to steam.
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Possibilities
1 The mysterious figure on the river is the Devil, transported to earth in human form. He challenges all those who come near him to a battle of wits, a battle that he has rigged to win at the cost of the soul of any who challenge him.
2 The mystery man is an actor being paid by a developer to scare the people out of the area so that they can buy up the land to build a casino on the river. All of his scare tactics are a bag of harmless special effects meant to scare away the curious and the simple minded.
3 The figure is an alien from the planet Venus. His coat protects his skin from the sun’s radiation which would be deadly to him, and he sweats acid which burns the ground where he steps.
© Paul Comeau
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