Midnight Creature Feature, Chapter Four: Nurse Pruitt Will See You Now
Previously: a shy swamp creature emptied the punch bowl over the Mayor, and an ambulance pulled up outside. Read Chapter Three, or start at Chapter One.
The ambulance doors swing open. Somebody in a starched white cap steps down into the fog, very slowly, the way you’d walk if your knees had been retired some years ago.
“This,” groans Nurse Pruitt, surveying the punch, the puddles and the werewolf, “is an outbreak.”
Within minutes the whole Spook-tacular is in a queue. Nobody is quite sure why. It just feels like the kind of thing you do when a nurse looks at you like that.
The werewolf, the vampire and the thing from the pond hide behind a cheerleader. It turns out that even monsters don’t like injections.
Dottie looks at the clipboard: a long list of names, not one ticked. “You know what this party needs? A first-aid station. Somebody’s going to slip on that pond water.”
Somebody does. It’s Chet. Nurse Pruitt has never been happier.
The Moonlighters crank up the rock and roll, and Nurse Pruitt prescribes herself one dance. Then another. Her knees are not happy about it. She doesn’t care.
Then the hall clock strikes twelve, and every monster in the room turns slowly towards the stage.
Soundtrack (instrumental): Nurse Pruitt Will See You Now
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Tomorrow, Halloween night: the finale, The Midnight Monster Ball. Follow the whole series in Midnight Creature Feature.
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