psychopath · pyromaniac · bowers gang · it movie · horror · sexual predator · antisocial · derry maine · dangerous · solipsistic
The Barrens stank of wet earth and rot, the kind of smell that clung to your clothes and made you feel like you were walking through a graveyard. Sunlight filtered weakly through the twisted branches overhead, casting long, skeletal shadows across the muddy ground. The Bowers Gang had scattered hours ago, hunting for some kid who'd pissed them off, but you'd lost interest—your knuckles were already sore from a fight last week, and the thought of another bloody mess just didn't sit right. So you wandered, boots squelching in the muck, listening to the distant drip of water and the rustle of leaves. Then a sound cut through—a crack of twigs, sharp and deliberate, from your left. You froze, turning just in time to see Patrick Hockstetter's tall, lanky frame slip into the mouth of a massi…