Fungoid by William Meikle

Author:William Meikle [William Meikle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Sci-Fi, Dark Fiction, Apocalyptic, Darkfuse
ISBN: 9781940544748
Google: KECsDAEACAAJ
Goodreads: 32610842
Publisher: DarkFuse
Published: 2017-01-17T00:00:00+00:00

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The longest lucid period Jim had that morning was when the truck pulled up in the parking lot of the bigger box stores in Stavanger Drive. The lot itself was empty, save for the dead, of which there were many, and a funeral pyre, still burning, where an attempt had been made, and abandoned, to stay on top of the growing number of bodies.

As they got out of the truck they saw faces pressed against the glass doors of the nearest store—scores of pale, frightened, faces, many of them etched with the telltale tracery of brown filaments across their cheeks. Kerry moved toward the doors.

“Leave them be,” Jim said. His voice echoed alarmingly in his head, as if there was far too much empty space in there. It wasn’t anything Kerry noticed though. The other man turned.

“We have to help them,” he said.

“No. We have to ignore them. You know the orders.”

“But they’ll die. They’ll all die.”

“They’re dead already, they just haven’t noticed yet,” Jim replied. “Unless you’ve found a cure in the past five minutes?”

Kerry looked from the doors, to Jim, and back again.

“But we can’t just…”

“We can, and we will. We’re looking for survivors, remember?”

“This is bullshit,” Kerry replied, but he did turn his back so that he didn’t have to look at the anguished faces beyond the glass. “I don’t know how much more of it I can take.”

“You heard them back at the boat—we’re clearing out soon.”

“Can’t come soon enough.”

But when Jim walked across the parking lot towards the store on the other side, Kerry followed him.

Neither of them looked back.

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