Breaking the Brush Men by L. S. O'Dea

Author:L. S. O'Dea
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Science Fiction, Genetic Engineering, Dark Fantasy, short story, action adventure, disturbing series, paranormal, paranormal fantasy, urban fantasy
Publisher: L. S. O'Dea
Published: 2018-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14: Glick

“Go away. I’m sleeping.” Glick slapped at the hand on his shoulder.

“The lights are off.” Bumpers shook him harder. “The Almighty and Guards just left. We have to go.”

“Where?” Glick sat up, blinking. He’d been having a wonderful dream. There’d been food, a lot of it, and he’d been face first in the flesh, filling his belly.

“We need to go to the other side of the cage.”

“But the water. The soil.” He held up his hand with the missing finger. He didn’t want to go anywhere but back to sleep.

“We’ll move from bush to bush.” Bumpers glanced at Flea who was still curled up sleeping. “We have to find food.”

“Okay.” Glick stood. Bumpers was right. They’d all starve if they didn’t find something soon. He dropped down to a lower branch.

“Not that way.” Bumpers moved upward through the foliage.

“Why are we going up?” Glick followed.

“You’ll see.” Bumpers continued climbing.

When they were at the top, Bumpers stopped. Glick stood next to him, staring out over the enclosure. It was vast—bigger than it looked from below. There was no movement, no green, nothing but dark dirt and dead plants.

“It’s going to take forever to build a trail to the other side.”

“We’re not building a path of leaves. We’re going to use the bushes.”

“They’re all dead.”

“Not those.” Bumpers grabbed Glick’s head and turned him. “The ones on the perimeter.”

“They don’t look much better than those.” Glick pointed to the ones in the center of the cage.

“Sure they do.”

“I’m not seeing it.”

“Look closer. There’s green on some of them. Not much, but even a little means they’re alive.”

Glick squinted. “Hmm. I don’t know.” The bushes still looked dead to him.

“We need to get inside that other enclosure. It’s our only chance.”

“It’s too far.” It was all the way on the other side and everything between here and there would kill them.

“We have to try.” Bumpers moved behind Glick, turning his friend so he couldn’t help but peer into the other enclosure. “Look at all that food.”

The other cage was over flowing with vegetation. There were flies and bees zipping about, begging to be caught and eaten.

“Why do you think we’re in here instead of there?” he asked.

“Don’t know. A mistake. Maybe, this cage was dying so the Almighty moved the other ones but didn’t know about the eggs.”

That kind of made sense, but...“Why did the Guards kill us?”

“Don’t know, but if we can find a way to get inside with the others we’ll be safe. Fed and safe.”

The Brush-Men moved about, catching bugs and picking at the remains of the carcasses from earlier today. They traveled in small groups but seemed to stay with those their own size.

“You really think we’d be safe in there?” He didn’t like the way the others looked at them.

“Yeah, why wouldn’t we be?”

“They look hungry.” He’d swear when he’d screamed they’d been searching for him to hunt, not to help.

“Yeah, but we’re their kind.”

“Rocky and the others were like us.”

“That was different. If Rocky and the others hadn’t died we wouldn’t have eaten them.

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