Life ((and Death)) Journal of Gregory Spencer

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So I left everything back home in Northwest Arkansas to come to a nowhere town in Canada. CANADA!! I just hope I don't start adding "A" to the end of all my words. That would be great - a hick from Arkansas with a Canadian accent.

Got into town pretty early. The sun was just rising over the treetops. This really is a beautiful town I have to admit. The pictures that I was able to come across on the internet don't do this place justice. I'm going to need to send some pictures back home to Mom. She'll be lonely without me, but some nice country pictures might make her want to visit sometime. I'm sure she'll like it up here. Just need to find a place to settle down first. Wonder where I could start looking for a quick job and a place to rent?

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Been living out of the car the past few days. Not really a problem, I mean I've done things like this before when I would go to the away games for the UofA. Cheaper that way and the $75 per diem the paper always gave me went A LOT farther. I remember I was able to buy that Special Edition Blu-ray of Star Wars for Mom on the last trip. We had so much fun watching all 6 of them straight through. Of course she enjoyed the classics more.

I haven't found any decent job yet though. I've been doing a few odds and ends, but not enough to make anything serious. My stash is running low and I'm going to have to think of something fast. I may visit one of the casinos and try my luck. Never been one to gamble, but when you have no other options. My car was broken into last night while I was out. They took a few old coins I had for pawning, my lifeline if something happened so now I'm really in trouble. I think I will have to check out that casino tomorrow.

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So this entry is going to be a little bittersweet. I visited that Casino I was talking about, and I WON! 1 Grand baby!! That's where things failed though. I left the establishment and apparently was targeted cause I was quickly pulled into the nearby ally and beat up. The last of my money was taken and I was left with nothing but a stained shirt and few cuts and bruises. Luckily there was nothing broken.

Met a lovely girl at the Riverview Cafe next door to the Casino. While the Cops I talked with wouldn't give me even enough money for bus faire back to my car, this girl gave me a free bowl of soup. I was able to get some information about the Quarantine Zone from her, but she quickly froze up when I asked if there were ways in. She must have thought I was just another junkie no matter what I said. Oh well, I'll visit her again once I make my story. I'm going to have to find a way in. I may not get another entry so if anyone finds this, you'll know what I tried to do and where I went, and if you are the cops trying to cover up my 'disappearance' you can all go to hell.

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I'm going crazy. I swear the last few days of my life have been a nightmare. They have to be. I was down in the sewers looking someway to get into the QZ when a grate gave way. After trudging through the muck and the mire I was ambushed and lead through a series of tunnels only to emerge exactly where I wanted to be. And guess what....there were ZOMBIES! And then the woman that had brought me there bit me. I couldn't believe it, but that's when I blacked out. I woke up some time later buried in the mud of one of the tunnels, that's how I know it had to be a dream.

I got out and found that my car was stolen...big surprise...I can't catch a break here. Went and met that girl at the RiverView cafe again and gave her the last of my money. Turns out though she's trying to kill me. I imagine she has some weird hatred for visitors and wants them to leave. Her soup must have sent me into some kind of delirium that made me dream of zombies and getting bitten by some kind of vampire thing. I mean seriously, vampires and zombies, yeah right.

When I went back, Marcie looked at me all shocked like she was sure I was gone or better dead. She brought me another bowl of soup and a glass of milk. After taking a few bites I ran to the bathroom and threw it all up, it made me so sick to my stomach. I looked at her as I left and she looked like she was even more scared of me. Figures when I didn't die she'd try again and when I threw that up she was sure I was going to turn her in.

But I have no proof, and I'm sure if I went back to GET proof, she'd be gone or wouldn't try to poison me for a third time. I'm still getting fleeting visions of the woman in m dream. I need to get out of here, but not sure what to do at this point. I'm going to go back to sleep and think about this tomorrow.

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Day.....who cares. I've been in this city long enough to know what I am and who I am. I've met my "family" who believe it or not are really decent people...well some of them. The girl that chased me through the sewers turns out to be my sire. She turned me into a vampire, but anyone else reading this wouldn't believe me. They would say I was high or suffering hallucinations. I know what I am.

Now I need to find out what to do.