Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons

Author:Dan Simmons
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Epic, Vampires, Fantasy, Horror, Paranormal, Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, Men's Adventure, Thrillers, Psychic ability, Horror fiction, General, Occult & Supernatural, Espionage
ISBN: 9780312567071
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2009-11-24T06:00:00+00:00

THIRTY

Germantown

Tuesday, Dec. 30, 1980

Gentry wondered if he was going insane. As he rushed back to Community House, he wished Saul was conscious so they could talk about it. It seemed to Gentry that the world had become a paranoid nightmare where cause-effect chains had broken down completely.

The twin called G. B. stopped Gentry half a block from the house. The sheriff stared at the muzzle opening of the crude pistol and snapped, “Let me through. Marvin knows I’m coming back.”

“Yeah, but he don’t know you bringing some dead honky dude back with you.”

“He’s not dead and he may be able to help us. If he does die, I’ll make sure that Marvin holds you responsible. Now let me through.”

G. B. hesitated. “Fuck you, pig,” he said at last, but stood aside. Gentry had to pass three more sentries before getting to the house. Marvin had extended their defensive perimeter a hundred yards in each direction. Any unknown vehicle on the block was to be fire-bombed if it did not get moved. A green van with two whites in front and God knows how many in back had spent thirty seconds considering Leroy’s ultimatum before moving out at high speed. Perhaps it was the liter bottle of Shell unleaded in Leroy’s right hand that convinced them.

Monday night had been entry into nightmare.

Marvin and the others had returned to Community House through alleys and backyards, Leroy bleeding from a dozen shotgun pellet wounds, all of them except Marvin semi-hysterical in the aftermath of the gun battle in the dark apartment building. They had dragged Calvin’s and Trout’s bodies into the building and Marvin had planned to send Jackson or Taylor back with Jim Woods’s panel truck, but the confusion they returned to sidelined that for hours. By the time they did send a truck shortly before sunrise, the five bodies were gone and only anonymous pools of blood remained on the second and third floors. No authorities were on the scene.

The Community House was bedlam when they returned. Shots were being fired at every shadow. Someone had put out the fires in the derelict autos, but smoke still hung over the block like a cloud of death.

“He was here, man, the honky monster, man, here, like in the house, he got, like, the wimp Woods and hit Kara real hard, man, and Raji like saw him chasing the camera chick across the yard, man, and . . .” babbled Taylor when they arrived.

“Where is Kara!” roared Marvin. It was the first time Gentry had heard the young man shout.

Kara was upstairs, said Taylor, on the mattress behind the curtain, hurt real bad. Gentry followed them upstairs. Most of the gang members there were staring at Woods’s headless body on the pool table, but Marvin and Jackson went straight to where Kara lay unconscious, being tended to by four other girls.

“Doesn’t look good,” said Jackson. The girl’s beautiful face was almost unrecognizable, the forehead swollen grotesquely, eyes darkened with draining blood. “Should be in the hospital.

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