Bigfoot by Eric S Brown

Author:Eric S Brown [Brown, Eric S]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2018-03-24T23:00:00+00:00

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Henderson had gotten up early. He was eager to get things rolling at the camp again for the day. Wallace was waiting for him downstairs in the hotel’s lobby, a coffee for him in hand. Henderson took it from him as they headed out into the parking lot.

Wallace opened the passenger side door so that Henderson could get in and closed it behind him before heading around the front of the car to slide into the driver’s seat. Henderson’s eyes were on the sky. The sun hadn’t come up yet, or at least hadn’t managed to pierce the gray of the morning. The weather forecasts were calling for up to a couple of inches in terms of snow, but Henderson hoped they were wrong. The operation was running behind where it should have been and it would be his head that rolled if the pace didn’t pick up. He leaned back in his seat, sipping at his coffee, as Wallace drove the car out of the lot onto the main road. There wasn’t much traffic about during their commute to the camp. All in all, they passed only a handful of cars. It looked like most of Lowah was still asleep. Henderson glanced at his watch as Wallace took the turn onto the gravel road leading up the mountain to the camp. Its display read 5:47.

The car bounced along the gravel road at a slow but steady pace. Its headlights cut through the dimness beneath the gray sky. Henderson closed his eyes and started crunching numbers in his head. If he could just double the amount of work that was getting done, the operation would be on track again in less than a week. The car suddenly came to an abrupt halt. Henderson was flung forward in his seat, his coffee splashing onto the car’s dash as his shoulder belt caught him and snapped him back, keeping him from hitting the dash too.

“What the…?” Henderson began to rage but then he saw why Wallace had stopped the car. Ahead of them in the road leading to the camp stood what could only be described as a monster. A turned-over jeep lay shoved onto the side of the road, its headlight still burning. Henderson recognized the jeep as belonging to Gerald, his foreman, who always got to the camp before the other workers. Gerald was a good man who believed in hard work and keeping a timetable. That was why Henderson had hired him.

The monster appeared to be holding something that looked like a human body. Henderson screamed as it tore off the body’s head and threw it at the windshield of the car. Gerald’s blood-smeared face struck the window in front of him with enough force to crack it and then bounced away. Next to him, Wallace was already throwing the car into reverse. There wasn’t really space in the road to turn the car around quickly, but Wallace was sure trying. The monster roared, rising up to its full height.

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