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As Elias Cantu faces flies, eerie silence, and unsettling signs beyond ordinary animal attacks, an old childhood legend—El Chupacabra—returns with terrifying force. He rushes to alert local authorities while fearing whatever is still watching from the woods.","FREE SHORT STORY – BIGFOOT: HUNGER  \nA remote cabin. A snowstorm. And something starving in the woods.  \nFrom Ethan Blackwood comes a chilling standalone tale in the Shadows in the Timberline universe.  \nGrab it free on BookFunnel  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER 1: THE MUTILATED HERD  \nThe sun, a molten coin in the vast Texas sky, was just beginning to bleed orange and purple across the horizon when Elias Cantu started his morning rounds. His old Ford pickup, its paint faded to a dusty blue, rumbled over the cracked earth of the track leading to the south pasture. For fifty years, Elias had worked this land, inherited from his father, who had inherited it from his. The rhythm of the ranch was in his blood, as vital as the Rio Grande that snaked along the southern edge of his property, a silver ribbon separating two worlds. This morning, however, an uncharacteristic stillness hung in the air, a silence that pricked at the edges of his awareness . Even the cicadas, usually a deafening chorus at this hour, were subdued.  \nElias squinted, his weathered face a roadmap of sun and worry. He’d been a rancher long enough to know that nature had its own language, and this quiet felt like a held breath. He steered the truck around a clump of prickly pear, its flat pads studded with menacing spines, and headed towards the stock tank where his prize Charolais herd usually gathered. They were his pride, their creamy white coats a stark contrast to the dun landscape. He’d been meaning to move them to the fresher grass in the north pasture, but the heat had been relentless, sapping his energy.  \nAs he crested a small rise, the stock tank came into view. And then he saw it. Or rather, what he did not see . There were no cattle. Not a single one. A knot of unease tightened in his chest. Coyotes sometimes harassed the calves, and the occasional cougar, bold and desperate, might try for a weaker animal, but the entire herd vanishing was unheard of. He cut the engine, the sudden silence amplifying the nervous thrum in his ears . He grabbed his battered Winchester from the gun rack, a habit ingrained from decades of dealing with four-legged and sometimes two-legged predators in this harsh border country.  \nThe smell hit him first. Coppery, thick, and sickeningly sweet. It was the scent of a slaughterhouse, but out here, under the open sky, it felt profoundly wrong. He walked forward, his boots crunching on the dry caliche. The silence was broken now by a low, buzzing hum – flies.  \nThousands of them, a black, shimmering cloud.  \nHe rounded a dense thicket of mesquite, its feathery leaves doing little to conceal the horror beyond. Elias stopped dead. His breath hitched. The Winchester slipped from his suddenly nerveless fingers, thudding softly into the dust.  \nIt was a charnel scene. His Charolais, his beautiful, placid cattle, were strewn across the ground like fallen statues in a desecrated temple. Not just dead. Mutilated. Their thick hides were ripped open with a savagery he had never witnessed. Great, gaping wounds, not torn by teeth or claws he recognized, but almost…incised. Their massive bodies were splayed at unnatural angles, limbs twisted.  \nBut it was the blood. Or the lack of it. The ground beneath them, the surrounding scrub, should have been soaked crimson. Instead, it was mostly dry, stained in patches but not saturated. Their bodies looked…deflated. Drained. As if some monstrous leech had feasted upon them.  \nElias stumbled closer, a choked sound escaping his throat. He’d seen what wolves could do, the ragged devastation of a bear attack. This was different. This was methodical, precise in its brutality. One cow, a young heifer he’dbottle-fed as a calf, lay on her side, her eyes wide and glassy, reflecting the dawn sky. A massive, triangular flap of skin and muscle was peeled back from her ribcage, the bones beneath stark white. There were no bite marks around the wound, no signs of a struggle beyond the disturbed earth. 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