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TICK TOCK

A thirty-year-old detective-novelist living in southern California named Tommy Phan is on
top if the world. He had just purchased a brand new Corvette and is living his fantasy of
living the American dream. On his way home he calls his mother to inform her of his new
toy. After feeling guilty about the conversation, because he is living his dream and not
living with his family and working at the family business. On his way home he stops at a
diner to get something to eat he meets a young blond. After he pays he speeds up in his
new car so he can arrive home. When he arrives at his home he notices a small rag doll on
his doorstep. Confused, but intrigued he picks up the doll and carried it inside. He
proceeded up his stairs to his computer work with the doll still in hand and placed it up
against a lamp. After he sits down he studies the doll more carefully and notices a small
folded note with a pin holding its place next to the small hand. The note is written in
Viennese, not knowing the language since he was eight, he puts it down and examines the
doll and sees two stitched crosses where the eyes should be, one for the nose, one over
the heart, and five for the mouth. He leaves the room and when he enters the doll isn't
where he left it and there is a message on his computer that had not been there before.
It reads  the deadline is dawn . Scared by the note he tries to find the doll. When he
picks it up off the floor and props the doll next to the lamp where it had been before.
He starts to work on his books, about a detective named Chippen Wen a charming, brave man
who can do anything if he has a gun and his fists. A small pop alarms him and he looks at
the doll and notices that the stitching across the heart on the doll was not there. He
picks up the doll and places his hand over the heart and can here ticking, almost like a
heart beating. Another popping sound and he could see eyes and a mouth. Breaking out of
the cloth that it was wrapped in the demon leaps off into the darkness. Not only is it
quick and supernatural but it is intelligent. The demon creature is bent on killing Tommy
and after trying to kill it he decides to run away. He hops in his new corvette and
drives away. After a while he here's noises in the engine and realizes that the demon
disabled his brakes and uncontrollably he is accelerating after he crashes he tries to
escape seeing the demon mesmerized by the fire he starts running without looking back. He
sees Deliverance Payne, the blond he met at the restaurant, and they escape with a quick
brush in with the demon. After driving around he decides to go to his brothers so he can
translate the message. He gives the note to his brother but the note is smeared and he
will need a few hours to try and translate it. They decide to leave and not stay in fear
of the demon. They decide to steal a car because her car was mysteriously missing. They
go to her house to get weapons and ammunition. The demon has grown to the size of a human
and has super strength. They get her dog and start to run away. After escaping from
death, deliverance decides to go on her boat to escape from the demon. They get to the
island where her mother lives to get advice and a car. Tommy meets her mother and they
call his brother to see if he translated the message. The note was not perfect but he
could make out most of it and it wasn't good. Tommy's brother translated most of the
message and it said if he stayed alive till dawn he would survive. His brother had called
his mother for advice and she knew exactly what to do. Deliverance and Tommy raced out
side and drove the mother's house. When they arrived Tommy's mother had already called
Tay Maan Pan, the witch doctor who put the curse on Tommy, and were on their way there.
After explaining to Tommy they the curse was only meant to scare him for trying to escape
his real roots and trying to become an American. They reached their destination and Tay
was waiting for them. The demon could not harm him in the house in which the curse had
been set. They waited till dawn. He survived till dawn and the demon slowly transformed
into the Rag doll once again. Later Deliverance and Tommy got married and Tommy's mother
accepted Tommy's American Lifestyle and his new wife.