There is a creature who hunts in the night.
It drinks the blood of lowly beings such as goats; in fact, it prefers goats.
A goat is safe; a goat does not draw attention.
Maybe you haven’t heard of El Chupacabra, the goat sucker.
It is a mythical creature about 3 feet when standing erect, but who prefers to stoop.
It’s eyes are red, evil and alien, not of this world.
The creature hisses sulfur when agitated.
Two popular theories are the animal is an extraterrestrial, or it was created in a military lab.
Why goats?
Goats are safe for the chupacabras, who leave two tiny puncture marks near its heart.
The goat is tired, but nobody notices.
Chupacabras are intelligent creatures, who hide from our sight; that is why there are so few sightings.
But just like humans, chupacabras have personalities, and occasionally, but rarely, there is a rogue chupacabra, who decides to slaughter goats and sheep.
Eventually it graduates to more challenging prey: dogs and children.
Prey old enough to fight back.
Blood flows sweet and warm with no taste of hay or alfalfa.
The fight makes the blood intoxicating.
This is a story of one such rogue who ventured far from home, and became entangled in a Halloween drama in the desert.
This is the story of “El Chupacabra.”
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