Graveslinger by Darren Compton

Author:Darren Compton [Compton, Darren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unmarked Grave Press
Published: 2021-07-29T22:00:00+00:00

Fiya fended off several ghouls who came near the bus, and as easy as it was, the crowd control was taking its toll on her elbow. The tendon stung like a bolt of lightning, and she gritted her teeth as it burned. She kicked the fallen undead bodies away from the bus, so when the others returned, they could easily climb aboard.

One ghoul who survived a shot to the head managed to crawl across the grass to her. It grabbed her leg, squeezed, and tried to climb her. She could smell its foul, pestilent breath as it hissed at her. She tried to jump away, but the ghoul weighed her down. Anchoring her, it bit her leg, its sharp jaws clamping tight on her leg muscles, but couldn’t tear through the Kevlar weave fabric.

“Damn it, damn it, damn it!” she spat as she slammed her other foot into the side of its head. Its jaws released her leg, and she kicked its head into the side of the bus, smashing in its skull.

She wiped the ghoul drool from her leg and dreaded the oncoming bite-shaped bruise that’d show up in the morning. “And they mocked my gear investment,” she said, thinking about all the times she was told she was over-doing her body protection. If she had been wearing only cotton pants, she’d probably be infected already.

She huffed a few breaths as she turned to see if any other ghouls were approaching. Two more came her way. The female ghoul she didn’t recognize, but she let out a gasp when she saw Daryl, the clerk from the Suncrest Motel, shambling toward her. His skin appeared fresh. Either he lived awfully close to Skyhill or this cult had expanded its territory.

The two were still a distance away, almost another bus-length, in fact, but Fiya wasn’t going to chance them sneaking up on her. She aggressively walked to them, shaking off the limp in her leg, and skewered the girl through the eye socket.

The width of her blade slice merged both sockets into one bloody mess. She used her bad foot to reach up and push the girl off her sword. Daryl clawed at her, and Fiya stepped back, dodging his lunge. She swung her blade, lopping off the top of his head like a coconut shell, only messier.

Though other ghouls herded in the schoolyard, coming from other parts of the school and others climbing the fence from hiding in the woods—they were far enough away that she felt comfortable returning to the bus. She breathed heavily, exhausted from all the extra swinging. She’d never dealt with so many ghouls at once. The most she recalled were in clusters of three to five. The numbers rarely got beyond that because all previous Ghoul Fever outbreaks had been contained quickly.

She narrowed her eyes at the lumbering ghouls in the distance. Their slow movement implied they’d been ghouls for more than several days.

The exterior double doors that Rutger and Thomas first entered burst open, catching her attention.

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