Antidote (Don't) by Jack L. Pyke

Author:Jack L. Pyke [Pyke, Jack L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781622341634
Publisher: Fantastic Fiction Publishing
Published: 2014-05-12T00:00:00+00:00

I woke up crying out, and the grief carried on when I found the world was black and plastic around me. It felt like I was the mouse stupid enough to wander into a snake’s stomach. Arms were tight at my side, and this strong smell of leather hit my nose. Fingers took on a life of their own as I scratched, clawed, rooted around, panic giving me something to fight and move for. Just level with my navel, I felt the run of a wide zip and traced it up, inching past my face until the underside of the zip’s catch ran under my fingers. Scratching at it with my fingernail, I managed to get it open—then I was tugging it down past my face as far as I could over my body. Somebody had bothered to dress me, suit, tie, the lot.

“Fuck.” I sat up, gasping for air, then instantly regretted it as my head smacked into hard metal. The world swam for a minute as I eased back down and risked opening my eyes. Huge hinges were above me, curved like forks ready to lift and hold something, and I struggled to put them and this plastic sleeping bag into context of Jack’s bedroom. These hinges seemed to belong to the boot of a car, one that was open, me on the inside, looking up. Car? There hadn’t been a car in....

Voices drifted over, and I felt the world move slightly. Bedrooms didn’t shift, or sway and dip as though someone had got in. Cars. Cars shifted with weight.

“I’ll get the boot in a sec,” called a voice. “Doc’s had his fat ass in this. I need to adjust this seat.” The car shifted again as the wind picked, then—“Shut your fucking door. Bloody gust is gonna take it off.”

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