Black City by Fernando Gamboa Gonzalez

Author:Fernando Gamboa Gonzalez
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Adventure Fiction
Published: 2015-12-12T00:00:00+00:00

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The professor was the first to dare say anything. “For heaven’s sake…” he whispered. “What on earth was that?”

I had no strength to answer him.

I did not know what they had glimpsed amid the confusion, but the image which kept playing over and over in my head had me paralyzed with terror.

Those arms holding Luizao more than a foot off the ground as he contorted in spasms…

“It looks as if he just collapsed,” Cassie said in the dark. She sounded as stunned as Eduardo. “But we never touched him. Did you see anything, Ulysses?”

“I don’t know what I saw,” I said bewildered. “It’s as if… as if… Christ, I swear I just don’t know.”

I had been staring fixedly at the dark ceiling, but now my gaze came slowly down until I saw the flashlight. It was lying on the ground about six feet away, shining uselessly on the wall.

I crawled on my side toward it, grabbed it with both hands, and aimed it up. There was a hole about three feet wide, opening in the ceiling like a sinister throat.

But there was nothing there.

“Shine the light below,” Cassandra said, her voice trembling.

I let the beam of light run along the wall down to the ground where it hit the mulatto’s big boots. He was looking up.

I ran the light down his legs, waist, torso—his arms were resting beside him in an odd pose, as if he were ready to run away at any moment—shoulders, and finally…

Cassie gave a muffled cry. The professor retched and vomited loudly. I had to squeeze my mouth tight and breathe deep to avoid doing the same.

The head was missing.

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