Far As You Can Go by Greg van Eekhout

Author:Greg van Eekhout [Eekhout, Greg van]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Sci-Fi Short
Published: 2010-03-06T19:30:00+00:00

Rusty shrieks gouged my ears as it rolled forward on fleximesh tires. Its “wings” turned out to be broken solar battery chargers, and the spikes on its back were its sensor-comm array. Not a dragon. But it could still spit fire. Swivel-mounted guns on its nose painted me and Beeman with red targeting dots.

“What do we do?” I whispered hoarsely.

Beeman turned his skinless face to me. “We slay it,” he said. “Follow me.”

Lurching awkwardly on his creaking knees, he ran for a tall stack of cinderblocks patched with garbage. The movement set the watchdrone off, and as I chased behind Beeman, gunfire sent up clots of mud at my heels. Panting, I threw myself to the ground and rolled myself up into a ball. Impacting bullets powdered the cinderblocks. The drone shrieked and grumbled closer.

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