Distant Worlds Volume 1 by Benjamin Sperduto

Author:Benjamin Sperduto [Sperduto, Benjamin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-07T22:00:00+00:00

Jonathon awoke in a comfortable bed in a small, well-lit room. A young woman in a blue shirt looked down at him.

“Good evening, Father Cross.”

He tried to speak, but his throat was too sore to produce any intelligible sound.

“No, no, don’t try to talk! Your throat is burned from all the smoke you inhaled this morning.” The woman smiled warmly. “I’m Doctor Ross and you’re in the intensive care unit at Mercy Hospital. You suffered severe burns in that fire this morning. Do you remember being pulled out of the house by fire rescue?”

Jonathon shook his head slowly.

“Well, you were lucky they got to you when they did. I’d said it’s a miracle you survived at all.”

An intercom speaker in the room crackled to life as she spoke.

“Dr. Ross to ER, Dr. Ross to ER.”

“I have to go, now, Father,” she said. “Just try to get some sleep for now, okay? I’ll be back to check up on you as soon as I can.”

Jonathon nodded weakly. Dr. Ross smiled and turned to leave the room. She clicked the light switch off and the room went dark except for the lights from the monitors next to his bed. Jonathon’s entire body hurt. He didn’t want to think about the burns he’d suffered that morning. But physical wounds would always heal, he reminded himself. There were deeper kinds of wounds from which a man could never fully recover.

Exhausted, Jonathon closed his eyes and tried to pass out. Despite the pain, he found it easy to relax. For the first time in his life, he didn’t feel the need to look in the shadows of the dark room. There was no longer any need.

“Johnny?”

Jonathon’s eyes snapped open. It had to be a hallucination. He sat up, ignoring the intense pain of moving his burned skin. In the far corner of the room a closet door was set into the wall. Its surface was a swirling maelstrom of horrors. The entire room smelled of rot and decay. Jonathon heard the door creak open and two vile eyes bored into him from the darkness.

“I’m so glad you’re awake!”

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