Glitch by Heather Anastasiu

Author:Heather Anastasiu
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-06-26T10:18:26+00:00

Heather Anastasiu

A panel of the wall was ripped outward and the sudden

rush of wind from outside the train was deafening. The

lights in the cabin fl ickered off and on and I saw in the brief

fl ash of light before we were swallowed in total darkness

that the person who’d been in his way was impaled on a

spike of twisted metal. The metal sparked as it contacted the

side of the outer tunnel, which cast enough light to see that

the top half of his bloody body had been severed at the torso.

Anderson hadn’t made it all the way through either.

One leg was caught in the twist of metal near the fl oor and

the whole train rocked unsteadily on its tracks every time he

twisted his heavy body in an attempt to free himself.

People banged against me on all sides in the darkness, los-

ing their footing in the rocking train. I screamed and pushed

at the bodies surrounding and suff ocating me. They were

ripped violently away from me— but it wasn’t the chaos of

the train that had sent them fl ying. It had been me, my power

accidentally unleashed again.

I tried to look and see if I’d hurt them, but between the

howl of the wind, the screech of metal against the outer tun-

nel, and my own screaming, I couldn’t make sense of any-

thing. I couldn’t tell if the other Regulators were trying to

fi x the situation and I couldn’t tell where Adrien was either.

A large man fell against me when the train rounded another

corner, knocking me to the ground. I managed to quiet the

buzzing in my mind fast enough to keep from throwing him

away from me.

The train car scraped along against an especially tight por-

tion of the outer tunnel and illuminated the interior long

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