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My Brother Disappeared Along The Oregon Coast, And I Think Whatever Took Him Is After My Whole Family

Soaked from head-to-toe, I jumped up onto my feet, stood up in the knee-deep water, and looked out to the deeper water where the blue orb, looking much bigger than it had from up on the course, rested on top of the waves about 10 yards away from me.

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The thought burned in the back of my mind. Guilt crept into my blood like a slow drip from an IV.

“Maybe he caught on fire and drove to the water to put it out?” Calvin went on.

“Come on,” I said and spit some chew in Calvin’s direction.

I followed the tracks which led off of the course and towards the ocean until they hit the moist sand and started to fade away.

I stopped and immediately heard Calvin yell from behind me.

“His tracks go into the ocean.”

“I see that,” I said smugly.

I looked down the beach in both directions, but didn’t see Roger’s four wheeler, or any signs of life. That guilt which was only slowly trickling into me just a few moments ago was now shooting into me like a fast shot of speed.

“Let’s split up, drive up and down the shore,” I suggested.

Calvin nodded an affirmative and we took off in opposite directions.