Alternate Gerrolds by David Gerrold

Author:David Gerrold
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Published: 2011-01-28T05:00:00+00:00

It’s not about getting even. It’s about getting better. Most people never figure that out.

What Goes Around

THE FIRE BLOSSOMS OUTWARD, rosy-petals of orange and black. The bullet spits. The sound pops softly in the sweating August night. Again and again.

It begins.

The door explodes. Horror invades, laughing wildly, screaming with invented rage at invisible monsters, nobody home here, just bodies, it doesn’t matter—rage assaults the nearest target.

The screams become a nightmare chorus. On and on. Outrage and shock. The knives begin to work, plunging, tearing—rending first the clothes, then the flesh, and deeper still, into the heart of the beast, and from there into the fibrillating heart of the species. The wounds go deep.

Bitterly the blades keep biting. Slender arms pump up and down, struggling with the dreadful work. Steaming blood pours forth, the muscles pull and strain. The bodies resist; it isn’t easy—tendons, cartilage, muscles, bone and spurting hot wet blood; a fountain of gore—it isn’t neat, it isn’t pretty. Life fights back, it resists the assault; it struggles, fights, bites, kicks, screams, claws, shrieks, begs, wonders, pleads, gasps and refuses to give up, even as it shreds away with dreadful ripping noises.

The gleeful cries go on and on. The harridans, the witches cackle and laugh at the audacity of this vicious celebration. “Die, piggie, die!” The walls are splattered with scarlet slashes. Steel skitters along bone. Cartilage resists, then breaks. Bodies jerk, and still the blood pours forth; the baby slides wetly into dreadfulness.

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