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“Well, Mr. Gabriel. What do you know about…demons?”
For most people, that’s a question that never comes up. Medium Seth Gabriel isn’t most people and for him, it’s another normal day in an abnormal life. It’s bad enough that his love life has seen better days but his personal problems are only the half of it. Seth’s ghost hunting business, SG Cleaning Services hasn’t seen a client in weeks and he’s desperate for a paycheck. Things look up when two potential clients seek him out. Courtney Reeves hires Seth to investigate a paranormal disturbance in her home. On the surface it’s a run of the mill cleaning job but when you deal with the dead for a living, there’s no such thing as routine. The close of the case is the start of even bigger problems and Seth will find that, while there’s nothing to fear from the dead, the living are another story. When the nervous and persistent Evan Gallagher enters his life, Seth sees the promise of a big payday. There’s only one catch. The wealthy lawyer thinks his wife is possessed by a demon. Seth doesn’t believe in demons…not anymore, but the money is too good to turn down. Is Evan crazy or is he one hundred percent sane? As Seth digs deeper, he’ll ask the same question of himself. For a guy who’s coasted through life on not much more than Greek takeout, tequila, and attitude, Seth’s going to have to dig deep to survive what will turn out to be a very bad week. |
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- “Okay, Evan. Let’s get down to brass tacks here, m’kay? Let’s say your wife is a demon
—and I’m not saying I actually believe that—but let’s say for a second or two that it’s true.
What do you want me to do about it?” I jerked a thumb at myself. “I deal in ghosts, as I’m
pretty sure you know being that you dug into my background and found me in the first place.
What makes you think I can do anything about a demon?”
“I know about your experience in high school…”
I held up a hand. “Evan, I was a troubled kid. You don’t even want to know what I went
through after my experience. All I know is that I’ve never seen anything like what you’re
describing, and I don’t know of anybody who has. Not legitimately. And even if I did, what
makes you think I’d know what to do about it?”
“Do you or do you not take care of people’s ghost problems?” He was in full on litigator
mode now. I felt like I was on the witness stand getting cross examined by Perry-shitting-Mason
in my own fucking office.
“You already know the answer to that, man.”
“Ghosts are supernatural, are they not?”
“Sure.”
“Would you say demons, or at least demon-like entities, are the same thing?”
I shrugged. “I guess for argument’s sake you could say that. If they exist, which I’m not
saying they do.”
“I’ve spoken with quite a few of your clients, Mr. Gabriel. Nobody knows exactly how it
is you do what you do, but you get results. I know many don’t believe in ghosts, but the fact of
the matter is that people have disturbances, people you’ve never met before in your life. They
call you with no prior relationship in evidence, and you show up, do what you do, and voila!” He
made a magician’s flourish with his hands. “No more disturbances. If you can get rid of ghosts
using your methodologies, and we assume ghosts and ‘demons’ are of the same ilk, maybe
there’s something you could do.”
“I don’t know. I just don’t know.”
“Why do you fight the existence of demons so much, Seth? You freely admit in ghostly
presences, but you fight against the existence of other supernatural things. Why?”
Because last time I thought I saw something like that, it drove me crazy enough to try and
off myself, maybe?
“And, in your experience, have you ever had someone possessed by a ghost?” he
continued.
“Well, no. They can make a ruckus and screw with people, but I’ve never had a client
that was taken over by one. That’s just not how they operate.”
“I rest my case,” he said, hands on his hips, chin jutted out in victory. I could tell that
Evan Gallagher was a hell of a lawyer. He almost had me convinced. And he did make some
valid points, some points I never really thought about or avoided thinking about altogether.
“Okay, fuck it. I’ll take your case.”
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