A Tear in the Veil by Patrick Loveland

Author:Patrick Loveland [Patrick Loveland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Cyberpunk
ISBN: 9780993718090
Amazon: 0993718094
Goodreads: 35498986
Publisher: April Moon Books
Published: 2017-06-06T23:00:00+00:00

21

It only takes a quick look around as Felix runs out from under the tree cover to figure out he’s in the cemetery he was hoping to avoid. He can see some of the ghoulish flutter-stop creatures milling about between, on, and in the graves in the cemetery proper ahead of him.

He looks back toward fence and notices what looks to be some sort of vehicle resting on the roof of Wahrheit’s main house. It’s like a small hovercraft with no balloon thing on the bottom. Even from this far, he can make out that it has a padded seat, thin antennae, and equipment with blinking lights similar in color and design to the stuff on the van he passed on the way in. Then he’s far enough away that the house and vehicle are out of sight, blocked from view by the layered tree branches.

That must be how that damn thing got in past all Wahrheit’s defenses. From above. But how? And why?

Felix sees the figure’s big head area pop up on the other side of the fence and he feels that strong desire to piss again but he just runs harder instead.

His legs beat down hard as he runs. He wishes he could run so fast that he could just start flapping his arms and flutter up into the air high above where that thing couldn’t hurt him, taking off like an early airplane or bird like in some of his childhood dreams…

But this is real and his only chance is across open ground. He needs to get back to the BART station and he’s pretty sure he’s going the right way. He reaches the cemetery proper and runs between the rows of graves.

He takes a quick look back over his shoulder and sees the big, dark thing loping through the cemetery behind him. He decides to just take quick, unfocused glances so he won’t get tranced out by looking at it.

As he snaps his attention in front of him again, he sees that some of the ghoul things have noticed him and are converging on him from all around. Their movements reveal their hollow stares and anguished, oozing faces as they get closer.

His legs are burning but he tries to run even faster.

The apparitions in front of him bunch up and he can’t avoid them. He runs straight through them and where his body passes through theirs and the other’s groping hands clutch at him, he feels colder than he ever has. He makes it through that group and zig-zags between more of the pale, glowing things, seeing them best as they lunge for him.

Stealing another quick glance behind, he sees that, instead of lunging for the big monster pursuing him, the wraith things make way, quickly clearing a path and shrinking away from it.

Even the scary things are scared of this thing! Run faster! Felix shifts his direction enough to reach a path running between the plots and runs down it until he has to cut through some more grave sections.

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