Bicycle Requiem by Juli D. Revezzo

Author:Juli D. Revezzo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal, zombies, Death & Dying, Suspense
Publisher: Juli D. Revezzo
Published: 2015-09-13T00:00:00+00:00

THE GIRL HOVERED OVER us all night, snarling at me from the corners of ceilings. Every room and hall I entered, I found her waiting at the threshold.

Every time I thought I was alone, there she was. My nerves on edge, I couldn’t think straight.

Neither the cabinets, nor the drawers in the break room, had the salt I needed. What about Hospitality?

When a co-worker entered the break room, I settled down to lunch. I’ll check later or hit the grocery store on the way home.

“You look terrible,” my co-worker said. “Why don’t you go home?”

He opened his lunch bag and pulled forth a salad and a small packet of salt. I eyed it with interest.

“Do you want that?” I asked.

He glanced at it. “Er, no,” he said, then handed the packet to me. “My doctor would probably shoot me for eating it anyway.”

“Ernie!” someone shouted in the distance. Not anyone I recognized. He pulled his hand back, rose, and left the room, taking the salt with him. As the door closed behind him, the little girl materialized, a triumphant grin on her face. Disgusted, I tossed my lunch back in my bag and stalked out of the room.

I didn’t know if the salt would really work to keep the girl away. But I’d dealt with this nuisance far too many days. Trusting to what Caitlin had told me, I checked with the hospitality staff’s stores. They were fresh out of salt.

Odd, I thought, but after work, I stopped by the grocery store determined to stock up for both of us, just in case. This late at night, there weren’t many people in the store. A couple doing some late night grocery shopping; some drunk guy, stumbling and mumbling to himself. Mara’s zombie zoomed here and there through the aisles; each one I turned down, she appeared, bits and pieces of what was left of her musculature dripping off her bones. I turned down another aisle, the one lined with candles sporting religious icons. Beside them stood another shelf, this of various spices—and salts. I noticed the little girl didn’t follow me.

Letting go a sigh of relief, I reached for one of the candles, white. The best color to drive her away, to tell by what I’d read. Next I plucked up a container of salt.

A low growl sounded behind me.

The lights flickered and several went out, leaving my aisle in shadows. Before me, the candles tipped over. Roaches crawled out of their glass jars, then maggots, in a steady stream that spewed like a fountain. I gasped a curse and jumped away.

The zombie girl popped into the air before me.

Still no bigger, yet somehow she seemed to fill the entire aisle. I didn’t know how her eyes still glowed with so little skin left holding them in.

Darkness closed around her, swirling like a galaxy of gloom. “Aaarrrrgggghrhhhh!!!” she screamed. You will know madness by the end!”

“Know?” Though my first instinct was to run, I pulled at my bravery. Swallowing hard I said, “Girlie, I already know madness!”

Spindly fingers grabbed for me.

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