From Ash by M. Chris Benner

Author:M. Chris Benner [Benner, M. Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Smashwords 2019
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Syke.

“That was quick,” Coranda again chuckled, facetiously.

Darkness, and then—

“Errgh!”

I growled, shaking as I woke; I didn’t sit up, though.

The music continued playing, drowning out my screams as I woke during surgery, paralyzed.

I’m over this bullshit, I thought.

A blue sheet was tied over the nose and mouth of the surgeon – but their black eyes were connected over the bridge of the nose in a way I’ve never seen on a human, slopping inward. And their forehead was caked in pale, flaking flesh. And their hair was greasy and knotted and blackened by ash.

The overhead light turned out to be an irregular strobe light – a white flash, a prolonged, 5-second period of light, then another flash of white, and finally darkness. And then it repeated.

I saw everything in blips, because of the overhead light.

A white flash, a prolonged period of light—inch by inch, my stomach slit open and split apart under the precise edge of a scalpel, as if it was the consistency of butter—then another flash of white, and darkness.

A white flash, a prolonged period of light—the skin around the surgeon’s eyes turned blue and then a deadened purplish, like a cadaver—then another flash of white, and darkness.

A white flash, a prolonged period of light—the surgeon reached into my abdominal cavity and pulled out ropes of bloody intestines, laughing wildly. His mask was off and his bloated purpling face was visible. His black lips were wide open and his mouth was filled with sharp teeth and a black goo that oozed into my open—

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