Field of Flesh: A NightWhere Novelette by Everson John

Author:Everson, John
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Arts Books
Published: 2017-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“HOLY MOTHER OF GOD!” I whispered. I stood in an alcove, but just a few steps ahead of me, the floor was much brighter. The room ahead seemed to stretch out forever, but it wasn’t the enormity of the place that shocked me.

It was the bodies.

The field.

There were thousands of men and women ahead of me, all of them tied to row after row of heavy wooden stakes. They all appeared to be nude, but that wasn’t the shocking part. It was what their nudity revealed that was frightening. Just a few yards ahead of me, a woman shivered and moaned faintly on her pillar. She was missing her left arm. But it looked as if the arm had just recently been severed. Blood flowed in a thick, rhythmic pulse down her side from the ragged hole in her shoulder. It was collected in a trough near her feet, and sluiced away in the gutter.

Her other arm remained whole, and she was using it to masturbate. Her moans seemed to be related to that activity, rather than the fact that she appeared to be bleeding to death. When her head raised momentarily from staring at the ground, I thought for a second that her eyes were closed. But then I realized that her eyelids were open. There were just no eyeballs beneath them.

I looked away, only to have my gaze fall upon a man without legs at all. He was strapped to the wooden pole with a harness.

His body wept blood from a dozen gashes that all ran parallel his ribs. But like the woman next to him, his hand was busy, masturbating himself with the lubrication of his own blood. As he arched his chest in apparent orgasm, the slits in his chest also opened, spilling more blood down his sides to splash in the gutter alongside his stake. This man had eyes, but he was looking somewhere that I couldn’t follow. His eyes were wide, but when I stepped a few steps closer, he seemed to stare right through me.

“Jesus Christ,” I murmured. As my eyes slipped over the bodies behind and around these two horrid figures, I quickly realized that they were not nearly the worst abominations in the room. Every body appeared to be missing some “pound of flesh”, and many were clearly getting off to some invisible porno show that must have been playing in their heads. Others hung limp, and apparently lifeless.

The most horrible part was that there were so many of them. I couldn’t see where the rows began or ended. There was no way in hell I was ever going to find Lucas in this.

I looked from right to left, taking in the sea of humanity ahead, and then looked back the way I’d come.

The door had closed as quietly as it had opened. I stepped back to push it open, to escape back into the corridor to consider. I didn’t think that I could do this job for Mrs. D anymore.

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