Bring Me Flesh, I'll Bring Hell: A Horror Novel by Martin Rose
Author:Martin Rose [Rose, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror, Private Investigators, Dystopian, Mystery & Detective
ISBN: 9781940456096
Google: qdY7ngEACAAJ
Amazon: B00KSFLXQM
Publisher: Talos
Published: 2014-10-06T11:00:00+00:00
sentient
part of me
met with
darkness.
*
Zzzzt.
Zzzzt.
*
And then, I awoke.
My head throbbed, my skull reduced to fragments of a broken bowl encased in a thin layer of rotten flesh. The ceiling of my cell in Madam Astra’s—Jessica’s—quarters, loomed above me. I attempted to sit up and wrench myself into an upright position and failed. I was pinioned against the uncomfortable cot, a metal band across my neck, more lashings constricted around my wrists and ankles.
If I were alive, I might have liked this, I noted with gallows amusement, attempting to arch my back and get a better view of my surroundings.
A rustling. A shadow moved beside me.
The dark figure drew closer. A cameo illuminated only by feeble light from a bulb in the wall socket. A ski mask shrouded his features, but I knew him from his lambent eyes and his lean and starved gait: the shooter.
“You,” I hissed.
He raised a finger to his lips, his eyes darting to the door and back again. He held a gun in his grip. A silencer protruded from the end. Footsteps shuffled at the closed door behind him and sent shadows through the threshold before they passed on with their business. In this underground lair, it begged the question of how he’d found me at all.
I pondered this new turn of events, attempting to remember something, anything, from the moments before, leading up to this one.
All that was left in my fractured memory were broken images of the dining hall. Faces like shuffled cards. I ran a dead tongue over the surface of my teeth. I tasted blood, hints of flesh stuck between the serrated molars. These remains were the only proof I needed of what had elapsed from my last conscious memory, of the children closing in on me in the dining hall, with Jessica by my side, to now.
I cursed myself, like a drunk recovering from one bender too many. Jessica had taken my pills away. What had happened that I was awake now? I doubted she was feeling benevolent and decided to dose me before trussing me up like a Christmas turkey. To whom did I owe my brief spell of lucidity?
As if in answer, the shooter opened his gloved palm. On the flat surface, he produced a bottle, my pills rattling inside of it. I recognized the bottle—my emergency stash. I kept it in a hidden compartment in my vintage television housing at home, along with a porn magazine I’d never thrown out and didn’t even like.
“What’d you do with the magazine?” I whispered.
His eyes narrowed in consternation, and if I were in a better mood I would have laughed. I had already decided he wasn’t here to kill me. If that had been his intention he would have done it already. He glanced back at the door and I struggled in my bindings.
“Get me out of here,” I demanded.
He did not answer. Instead, he set the gun aside on the end table beside the picture of me and Jessica in the shattered frame.
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