Ghost Town: A Novella by Mark Lukens

Author:Mark Lukens [Lukens, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-06-28T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

They all stared at Tony.

“What do you mean?” Carla asked him.

“Yesterday, when we were trying to leave, when I was by that barn, I saw something inside through the crack in the doors. I think it was a car.”

Carla jumped to her feet, her chair scraping back across the wood floor, almost tipping over. “What?!”

Tony shrugged, and he looked sheepish, almost ashamed. “Yeah. A car. A red one.”

“And when were you going to tell us this?” Carla spat out. “Or were you planning on keeping this information to yourself?”

“I wasn’t sure about it,” Tony said quickly. “I only saw the car for a split second and then they started shooting at us. I don’t even know if it runs, so why don’t you just calm your ass down?”

Eugene put his hands out in a placating gesture, trying to calm Tony and Carla down before they started screaming at each other again. “Okay. Okay, that must be it. It must be something. It has to be there for a reason. At least it’s something we can start with.”

They were all quiet for a moment, glancing at each other.

“So, how do we do it?” Beth asked, surprising herself with her boldness at speaking up. She was too tired to care anymore what the others thought of her right now. “How do we get down to that barn? We can’t just walk down there.”

“The dogs,” Eugene reminded everyone.

“And whoever was shooting at us from the church,” Beth added.

Tony nodded. “We could find some kind of weapon. Or making something to kill the dogs with. Like some kind of spear.”

“We’ve already looked around this place,” Carla said. “There’s nothing here.”

“We could bust up more of that furniture over there,” Tony said as he walked around to the head of the table and sat down. “Sharpen the chair legs down to points.”

“Sharpen them with what?” Carla said—she did not look like she was anywhere close to forgiving Tony about keeping the car in the barn a secret.

“What about upstairs?” Tony said, and he looked at Eugene and Beth, trying to avoid Carla’s gaze. “In that closet up there. All that stuff. We didn’t have much of a chance to look through it last night. Maybe we missed something. There could be something in there. If this is a game, then they have to give us something along the way to help, don’t they? Some kind of clues.”

Gene picked up his toy rat eating the piece of cheese. “Yeah, this is our help.”

Tony got up and marched towards the stairs.

“What are you doing?” Carla said.

“I’m going up there and look around again.” Tony didn’t wait for them; he bounded up the stairs.

“We should go up there with him,” Eugene said. “I don’t think any of us should be alone right now.”

They all turned to the stairs when they heard Tony yell down at them from the top of the steps in a panicked voice.

“You guys need to get up here quick!”

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