Chasing the Dragon by Nicholas Kaufmann

Author:Nicholas Kaufmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
ISBN: 9781926851808
Publisher: ChiZine
Published: 2010-03-08T05:00:00+00:00

5.

SHE IS RULED BY HER APPETITE

Georgia backed toward the warehouse exit, but one look at the dead hands groping for her from the shadows told her she wouldn’t make it. The meat puppets had moved too close. Even with their slow, clumsy movements, she knew they’d trap her in the narrow doorway before she could escape. She didn’t have a choice — she stepped to the side, trying to circle around them, and trying to keep enough distance from the wall behind her so she wouldn’t get pinned. The meat puppets turned in unison, following her with their lifeless eyes.

“Where are you?” she called. “Stop hiding and show yourself, you coward!” Her voice shook, and she hated herself for it. It made her sound like a scared little girl. With her hands trembling around the shotgun, she wondered if maybe that was all she really was.

The Dragon laughed, the sound echoing out of eight different mouths. One meat puppet stepped forward, away from the others. Its black Inkheads bandana was soaked with blood, and a long red gash stretched from its neck to its chest.

It leapt toward her. She glimpsed the other seven behind it shift position suddenly, but she didn’t have time to see what they were doing. She raised the shotgun and squeezed the trigger. The meat puppet’s head exploded in red and white fragments, and the echo of the report slammed off the warehouse walls like thunder. The body dropped to the floor and stayed there.

One, she thought. She pumped the shotgun, and the spent shell clattered to the floor. Only two left. She had to make them count or she’d die in this place.

She turned to the others, and her chest tightened when she realized what had happened. The one she’d shot had been a distraction, sacrificed so the others would have time to reach into the back of their waistbands and pull their guns. Now they stood in front of her with automatic pistols in their fists, their cracked, dead lips curling into smug sneers.

Georgia willed her legs to move. She ran for the door. A spot on the floor in front of her exploded suddenly. Cement chips flew into the air. She skidded to a stop. Smoke wafted from the barrel of the nearest meat puppet’s gun.

Georgia backed away from the doorway. The Dragon was toying with her. She wasn’t going to let Georgia get away that easily. The other meat puppets raised their guns.

She started running a moment before the shots rang out, pumping her legs like mad and diving behind one of the overturned metal tables. She crouched low against the sticky, blood-slick floor. The table jerked toward her, the metal puckering with each thudding impact of the bullets. How long could the table hold up under the attack? How long until the bullets broke though?

The echo of gunshots died, replaced with an eerie quiet. She rose to her knees and peered around the corner of the table. The meat puppets lurched toward her.

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