“Where do you want me to start?” he asked. He then raised his hand, finger outstretched. “And if you say ‘the beginning’, I will lock you in that cool room and walk away.” Bec shrugged. “How about what makes you so scared that you’re willing to blow us all up to stop it. Because I […]
As he stared, the heap trembled. Legs and heads rolled from the top of the pile and bodies shuddered. Nigel jumped back, half expecting the pieces to reassemble and come at him in some new, patchwork horror. A white arm, missing half the fingers on its hand, stretched out from beneath the viscera. Fresh purple […]
“People?” Milly’s voice rose in excitement. “Quick!” She reached for the handle of the stairwell door. Nigel grabbed her hand before she could open it and shook his head. He leaned forward. Bec and Milly joined him in unison. They stood with their ears pushed to the door for a full twenty seconds, each holding […]
He stared through the window at the spot where Jacob had been torn to pieces. He knew he was gone. He had seen it so it must be true, but it didn’t add up. Yes, the albinoids could slip through the smallest of cracks, but it took effort and time. There was no way they […]
Bec fell in line with Nigel without question. “Jacob, the door.” “Huh?” “The door, open the door.” Milly’s voice was urgent, nervous. Jacob jabbed at his watch three times and the doors hissed. The glass parted and Bec slipped through the widening gap, followed by the others. “Where are we going?” asked Jacob, concern evident […]
The beast’s slavering jaws hung loose in anticipation of its meal as they all fell backwards. It struck at Milly, missing her by half a hair. She screamed as its sting flashed past her face. It reared up, stretching out its arms and fingers, framing itself in its wings and letting out a deep roar […]
They were silent. Nobody looked at anybody else. The decision they had made weighed on them all. It was a decision to not only kill themselves, but anybody else that may still live. Nigel didn’t like it. He couldn’t bear the thought of all those deaths on his conscience, but he knew what was coming. […]
Bec threw her hands in the air and tuned away from Nigel. “Oh, yes, we’ll kill them all. Why didn’t I think of that? If only we’d thought of it sooner, we could have stopped all of this needless violence and death.” She turned back to Nigel with one eyebrow raised. “Really, Nigel?” “If only […]
The smell of wet leather was the first thing to hit him. The beast’s tattered wings opened out, revealing an elongated, snarling face; somewhere between a wolf and something shiftier, like an ermine or a weasel. It released its taloned grip from the ceiling and dropped silently to its feet before him, the scorpion’s tail […]
She didn’t look like his wife. Any semblance of her had been wiped away through years of apparent decay and misery. What stood in front of him was a shadow, a being of memory. It couldn’t be his wife, yet he felt it, he felt her presence coming from the spirit before him. He didn’t […]