Frenzied - A Suspense Thriller by Brandon Massey

Author:Brandon Massey [Massey, Brandon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dark Corner Publishing
Published: 2017-10-11T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Alex walked to the meeting at the Sanctuary Book Shop.

Without question, it was the most bizarre walk he’d ever experienced during his forty-plus years on this earth.

The low, cloudy sky continued to shed a persistent drizzle. Alex had found a midnight-blue rain poncho in Wayne’s hallway closet, and slipped it on before he left the house. He considered taking the Toyota Highlander parked in the garage, too—the keys hung on a hook in the kitchen—but even on a day as strange and violent as that one, when he had revisited some of his old ways, grand theft auto held no appeal for him.

So he traveled by foot. And, he saw things.

He saw a pack of dogs roam across the street, barely fifty feet away. There were over a dozen of them, comprised of various breeds, most of them wearing collars, all of them clearly infected with the same mystery illness plaguing many of the residents: eyes crusted with inflammation, blood dribbling from their nostrils. A burly, naked man walked with the dogs, like some dog whisperer from hell, leashes swinging from his thick neck like cheap necklaces. The man craned his head in Alex’s direction, sniffed the air as if testing for his scent, and then turned away as though Alex held no interest for him and his canine horde.

Alex eased his hand off his pistol.

Farther along, he passed a man cutting the grass of a front yard. In the past, the spectacle of a man trimming his lawn while it rained would have been only mildly interesting—but this man was as naked as the day he was born. He pushed the mower methodically back and forth, rain slicking his diseased skin, inflamed eyes focused on the grass ahead of him.

Alex wasn’t sure if the guy noted his presence as he passed by. He was oblivious to everything except his lawn.

Suddenly, Alex heard feet splashing through puddles behind him. He looked over his shoulder, hand reflexively moving to his gun.

It was a trio of young women. They were jogging in the middle of the road. All of them had the lean muscularity gained only from a rigid attention to diet and endless hours of exercise.

All of them were naked, too, their bodies mapped with festering lesions.

If he were another kind of man, he might have ogled the ladies, snapped a photo with his phone, but he found no pleasure in what he was seeing. Quickly, he moved out of their path and lowered his head.

None of the women paid him any mind whatsoever; he might have been merely a car parked on the street. But as they jogged past, bare feet slapping the wet pavement, he picked up snatches of their conversation.

“Mile another . . . feel so good the burn . . .”

“Wedding . . . lose pounds ten gotta . . .”

“Said I was fat . . . asshole . . . size zero here I come . . .”

Shaking his head, Alex kept walking.

He didn’t understand what was going on with these people.

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