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The multi-devil’s planning something big on this earth. World leaders meet with the Blackburn Board. Every president is a demon is disguise and no one knows it. The new CEO of Blackburn holds revival rallies in the skyscraper of hell. The dark star hovers over Tulsa. Nightfall is creeping ever closer. Jesus gives me a church to guard. The people are broken and desperate. The city is drowning in blackness that devours the light they so crave. Demons have infiltrated the congregation. Who are the humans? And who are the monsters in disguise?

The muggy silence that hung outside my bedroom window that August night in 1982 was pierced by the ringing telephone. A baby call. My mother was a baby-catcher (a midwife) and whenever the call came, she went. Too young to stay at home by myself, I went with her. I planned to draw or sleep as my mother worked, but on that night, as storm clouds burst overhead knocking power out for miles around, nothing went as planned.