The End: Story Three
The Sickness
By: David K. Montoya

Welcome gentle reader.
You are about to dive into the missing piece of the story for my series, The End. I created the first story in 2005 simply because the magazine was short on action/suspense stories. The End was supposed to be only three parts, but the Gray Family had much more to say. In 2008, I concluded Story two and the following year produced a special prequel story about how the Sickness was created. After that, I went away and created new things but never made it back to tell story three.
Well, here we are in the closing months of 2021, and we are dealing with a creepily similar pandemic. So, I felt that it was finally time to tell Lucas Gray's final journey in this tale with issue one hundred. While I understand that it has been decades since I put out a story from this serial, I genuinely hope it picks up and smoothly brings you back into that particular world.
I will enclose links to read the backstories for those who have not read any of the series.
- Chronicling the End
- The End: Story One - "The Sickness"
- The End: Story One - "Welcome to Airepseh"
- The End: Story One - "The Final Prelude"
- The End: Story One - "Homecoming"
- The End: Story One - "Imprisonment"
- The End: Story One - "Day Two"
- The End: Story One - "Border Town"
- The End: Story One - "Palace City"
- The End: Story One - "The Lead Up"
- The End: Story One - "Gladiator"
- The End: Story One - "Aftermath"
- The End: Story One - "The Great Escape Pt.1"
- The End: Story One - "The Great Escape Pt.2"
- The End: Story One - "The Great Escape Pt.3"
- The End: Story One - "The Great Escape Pt.4"
- The End: Story Two "The Sickness"
- The End: Story Two "Welcome to Corpseland"
- The End: Story Two "Prelude to the Darkness"
- The End: Story Two "To Home, From Hell"
- The End: Story Two "Lured Inside"
- The End: Story Two "Trapped"
- The End: Story Two "End of the Line"
- The End: Story Two "End of the Line" Part 2
- The End: Story Two "End of the Line" Part 3
- The End: Story Two "Nightmares and Dreamscapes"
- The End: Story Two "Enter the Cave Part #1"
- The End: Story Two "Enter the Cave Part #2"
- The End: Story Two "Exiting Corpseland"
- The End: Story Two "In the Heartland"
- The End: Story Two "In the Heartland Part 2"
- The End: Story Two "In the Heartland Part 3"
- The End: Story Two "In the Heartland Part 4 - The Conclusion"
- The End: Story Two "Final Reckoning"
I had always planned on having a story three, and after eleven years, I present to you Story Three of The End titled The Sickness.
Enjoy the final ride of Lucas Gray and his family!
Respectfully,

David K. Montoya
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