Get Blank (Fill in the Blank) by Justin Robinson

Author:Justin Robinson [Robinson, Justin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: occult, mystery, murder, humor, detective, science fiction, fiction, fantasy, conspiracy, noir, thriller
Publisher: Candlemark & Gleam
Published: 2014-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

[12]

IT WAS A PIPE, WET AND SLIMY, canted at about a 45-degree angle. I couldn’t be sure exactly: I had left my level in my other pants, and I was screaming. Later, if I ever spoke about this again, I would have to amend that to bellowing, yawping, or some other, more manly vocalization. But let’s face it, I was screaming. That’s what happens when you’re suddenly zooming through the wet, throatlike darkness, hurtling toward an unknown that’s practically guaranteed to be unpleasant.

The nice part was this chute was way too small for Vassily, and I couldn’t even hear his voice over the sound of my screaming and the rapidly increasing distance between us. The pipe slowly leveled out and I lost a little bit of speed, and then it opened up and I went sliding across a slick concrete surface, coming to a stop... somewhere in the pitch dark. All I know was my ass made little echoing sounds when it zoomed across the wet floor.

A hiss followed me, getting louder and louder. I tried not to have a heart attack as I went for my phone. I hit a couple buttons and a light shone from one end. I pointed it in the direction of the hiss in time to see Heather shoot out from the pipe about thirty feet away and slide across the floor on her butt. She bumped into me, most of her momentum gone by that time. Only then did she open her eyes.

“Jim?”

“Yep.”

“Where are we?”

I shined the light around the room. The phone’s glow was brighter than might be expected, but a real flashlight would beat the pants off it any day of the week. We were in a large concrete room. The fishy aroma of algae permeated pretty much everything, and I knew I would have to air myself out afterwards to be remotely presentable. An open doorway led out, though not to anywhere I’d want to go on a normal day. Things skittered away from the beam of the flashlight. For the time being, I planned to ignore them. I got to my feet and helped Heather to hers.

“Storm sewers, by the looks of things.”

“What was that?” she asked, nodding into the dark in the vague direction of the waterslide.

“Escape hatch. Means there’s probably a way out of here that won’t kill us.”

“Probably?”

“Satanists, remember?”

Dimly, I heard the echo of crashes and pops above. The geologic sounds of Vassily having a tantrum in the sex dungeon, filtering down through the slick to our ears. I had a hard time feeling much sympathy for anyone topside. I moved gingerly across the floor, trying not to slide my feet at all. Heather slipped on a patch of algae, windmilled her arms, and I caught her without thinking.

“Thank you,” she said, holding onto my arm.

I smiled to myself. I remembered meeting Mina a year ago; I had been convinced that there was no way someone that hot wasn’t out to get me. I had been

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