Feast or Famine by Warren Murphy

Author:Warren Murphy [Warren Murphy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Chiun Fictitious character --Fiction., Williams, Remo Fictitious character --Fiction.
ISBN: 9781035999507
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Chapter Twenty-seven

Tammy Terrill expected a big rambling Victorian out of The Addams Family. Or a long white lab building. Maybe even a rustic ranch or adobe fort.

She didn’t expect a mud hut.

Actually, it wasn’t a hut. It was too big. It was more like a wasp’s nest, but it was made from dried mud. Not piled mud, but sculpted and smoothed mud. Its flowing skin was blistered with strangely shaped windows like bug eyes made of glass. If not for the fact that it was the same color and texture as a Mississippi riverbank, it might have been beautiful in a weirdly futuristic way.

“Can you believe this place?” she whispered to her new cameraman, whose name was Bill. Or maybe Phil. He had come down from the Baltimore affiliate.

“Takes all kinds,” said the cameraman.

“Okay. Let’s see what we can see.”

They circled the hive. It was dotted with glass blisters. There was a front door and a back. In back, there was some kind of shed made of steel. From the shed was coming a strange humming.

“Sounds like bees,” whispered Tammy.

“Sounds like sick bees.”

“Or killer bees who haven’t been able to kill as much as they like,” suggested Tammy.

“Better leave it alone, then.”

“I’m more interested in what’s inside this big hive thing.”

“I want no part of any break-in.”

“No law against shoving a camera up against somebody’s window and taping away,” Tammy argued.

Bill—or Phil—shrugged. “I’ll go along with that.”

They picked a window at random. Creeping up to it, they pressed their faces against the chicken-wire-reinforced pane.

What they saw inside made their eyes grow round as saucers and their jaws fall open.

“Damn! Frankenstein’s lab wasn’t this weird,” the Fox cameraman mumbled.

“If this isn’t the story of the century, I’ll eat shit and like it. Now, get to taping before Wurmlinger shows up…”

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