Blood Soaked and Contagious by James Crawford

Author:James Crawford
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: survivalist, Action & Adventure, Horror, permuted press, preppers, Zombies, shtf, living dead, outbreak, apocalypse, Genre Fiction, survival, teotwawki, Literature & Fiction
ISBN: 1618681060
Publisher: Permuted Press
Published: 2011-08-25T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

People talk about “seeing red,” but until that moment, I’d never experienced it. At that moment, I really wanted the full Wolverine Makeover. All I could see in the red that was spread out in front of me was a vision of him in a puddle of his own innards. Strangling him with his own intestines seemed like a fantastic course of action.

I never got the chance to move forward. Charlie had heard what he said when she rounded the side of the building, and she put her hand on my shoulder from behind. I didn’t see her, but I knew it was her hand.

“Buttons, I’m going to tell you this once, and only once. If it doesn’t sink in, and you ever say something like that again, I’ll beat Frank in the race to shove my hand down your throat.” Her voice, the one I was coming to like very much, was an Arctic wind over my shoulder. If I’d found icicles on my earlobe, it wouldn’t have surprised me. “Now then, I have never taken money or anything of material value for fucking anyone. Ever. As far as this good man goes, I intend to screw him until he is a dirty little nub on the floor, and we’re going to exchange our hearts with one another as a durable investment on that interaction. You will never know how good I feel in his arms, or underneath him in the middle of the night.”

The Arctic blast had a certain amount of heat in it, and I found the red receding from my vision.

Charlie continued, “I could not care less if you can make manna fall from Heaven or dry rivers fill with water. We don’t need your fancy toys to win our way out of this mess. More than that, you can’t protect people with all your heart and soul if all you feel for them is some kind of disdain.”

She walked around me slowly, strolled over to Buttons, and got right in his face. “Make your choice. Be with us, protect us, and show us some respect, or keep pushing until one of us puts you through the woodchipper and feeds you to the roses.”

I couldn’t see his face, but I heard him agree to respect and protect. He stunned me by actually offering an apology on top of that.

“See? That wasn’t so hard, Mister Buttons! Was it?” Charlie patted him on the shoulder, but I saw her leg start to move at the same time.

There was a noise, a meaty and almost moist thump, and her foot settled back on the dirt. She followed up the roundhouse kick with a twist of her hips, and a tidy backfist to his nose. Buttons was on the ground making insane, inarticulate noises and holding his groin for dear life with one hand and his bleeding nose with the other.

“So help me God, if you ever call me a whore again, even behind my back, I will cut

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