Doom by John Shirley

Author:John Shirley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2005-10-28T07:00:00+00:00

Duke was sitting on a chair as Sam sewed up his wound. He was pretending it didn’t hurt as much as it did.

He was staring at the “imp” trapped in the nanowall. It’d gotten some of its strength back, was thrashing around, jet blood streaming between its teeth, foam dripping from the corners of its jaws, blood leaking from the edges of its eyes…

The creature thrashed and moaned.

“That’s why I don’t do nanowalls,” Duke said. He looked at the wound. Good, neat sewing. “Now that I’m dying,” he said gravely, “I want you to know I will accept mercy sex.”

“Sorry,” she said, bending to bite through a suture thread. “I’m afraid it missed the brachial artery. You’ll live.”

“Just my fuckin’ luck.”

Half a smile from her, then. Almost.

The lights flickered — off. On. Off and on. Duke and Sam looked up at the ceiling lights as they fluttered another time…and finally, almost reluctantly, decided to stay on for a while.

“Good,” Duke said dryly. “Because it’s not as if it wasn’t scary enough in here already.”

Sam grunted in agreement, and went over to the exam table, looked at the incisions she’d sawed into the dead imp’s chest.

Duke looked at the other imp trapped in the door. Almost felt sorry for it. Almost.

“Give me a hand here,” Sam said.

Duke turned to see Sam bent over the monster’s corpse on the gurney. She had a crowbar in her hand, was working on the thing’s chest. He sighed and went to help her pry it open. She used the crowbar, he used muscle, grabbing the two halves of the thing’s chest-exoskeleton, pulling them apart. Repugnant smells and fluid gushed and sputtered out, runneling over his hands, down his forearms.

This was not Duke’s ideal of a good first date.

They got the chest wide open — and Sam stared into it, mystified.

Duke didn’t look too close, himself. Sure he was tough — but he was a little squeamish about some things. “Jesus…you ever seen anything like it before?”

Sam nodded numbly. “Yes.”

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