/tags/demons/Recent content in Demons on Gromet's Plaza ArchiveHugoen-usSat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2010/10/30/the-haunted-factory/Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000/stories/2010/10/30/the-haunted-factory/<p>A Halloween Special 2010 Tale</p> <p>It was the end of August and summer was ending, but that was when the real fun had started for Kris, who owned an old factory in the bad part of town. The city offered her a deal of no property taxes until she could find new people to rent or buy the factory she had inherited. The tax board figured correctly that she couldn&rsquo;t afford the taxes, and if they forced her to demo the building, it would turn into a Superfund site and use up millions in tax money. If that happened, those jobs had a less than zero chance of returning to the community. The local thugs left the place alone, possibly because there was a rumor that the place was haunted, a rumor that Kris perpetuated. As a result the place looked much the same as when her relatives made whatever mechanical things the factory was known for.</p>