Dark Words (Horror Short Stories): Collected Short Fiction by Craig Saunders

Author:Craig Saunders
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Fable Books
Published: 2014-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

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IV.

A woman stood before him. She said nothing, watching him writhe in agony. He rolled into a ball on the floor, his arms pulling into his chest, like a corpse found after a fire. Had he any fat he might have melted. He screamed, and screamed, and she watched. Steady, stern, unwavering, just like the barrel of the shotgun trained on him all the while he moaned and shook and cried tears that looked a lot to her like blood.

‘Get up,’ she said. She waited a beat. ‘Get up,’ she repeated.

He couldn’t move though. The pain consumed him, burning deep inside now, his blood on fire, his bones like metal white hot from a furnace.

The woman didn’t move, just repeated her demand, over and over again.

He roared against the pain, against the hateful woman, against the shotgun pointed at him. Teeth bared he snapped his arms down, slapping the floor and pushing off the ground with legs and arms into a feral leap. Eyes misted with blood he didn’t see the mesh, slammed into it face first and a jolt of electricity tore through him.

He screamed again.

‘Fuck,’ she said, turning her head to someone outside of his hazy vision. ‘It’s dumb. This is a waste of time.’

‘Just wait, Sarah. Might be the shock. Been cold so long...’

‘Fuck that. I could just put it down now...’

‘Wait,’ said the voice. Another woman. A commanding, deep voice.

Matt rubbed his face with his hands, all his muscles, tensors and extensors so rigid he could barely move his fingers. He forced them to move.

He tried to talk. He tried. But he hadn’t spoken for near on ten years. In the years since his last meal. A man whose coat he’d stolen.

He tried to tell them he wasn’t dumb, but his voice had forgotten how to work and he could barely work his jaw either way.

‘Dumb.’

‘I don’t think so. Look. It’s watching us. I think there’s something left...’

‘Bullfuck.’

‘Sarah,’ the voice said, simply chiding. Sarah looked like she’d been slapped.

‘What then? Keep it?’

‘Put in a cell. Leave it a while. Maybe when it’s used to the warmth...’

‘I still say bullfuck. Should just shoot it now.’

‘And I said no.’

Sarah kicked at the electric mesh and sparks flew.

‘You’re thinking you’re lucky,’ she said. ‘Maybe. Maybe you understand what I’m saying. Either way, think again. You’re shit out of luck.’

Angry, she thumped a button on the wall and the floor beneath Matt slid aside and dropped him into darkness.

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