Horror Thriller Box Set 1 by Cross Amy

Author:Cross, Amy [Cross, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Dark Season Books
Published: 2013-11-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

Today.

"You okay?" Paula asks, standing in the doorway of the little shed. "Bill?"

"What?" I ask, turning to her. I guess I was so consumed by my work, I didn't hear her walking across the yard. I've spent all morning in this room, which I think must have been some kind of operating theater. There's a crude medical table fitted with manacles, and a nearby bench has various noxious-looking substances festering in old, dusty jars; on the wall, there's an array of rusty surgical instruments, such as a set of scalpels and a bone-saw. Whoever worked in this place, he obviously didn't care much about hygiene; I can't imagine what it must have been like to have come here for help.

"Did anyone ever tell you that you're cute when you're obsessed?" Paula says, smiling. It's the first time I've seen a genuine smile on her face since we arrived in Devil's Briar two days ago. I guess that's my fault; after all, she wanted to turn right around and get out of here, but I insisted we should stay. She thinks our truck got damaged and that all the gas ran out, when in fact I cut a hole in the fuel tank, and I've got the truck's spare gas can stored safely in an out-house behind the hotel. Some time after lunch today, I'm going to claim to have 'found' some gas, and finally we'll head back to Boston. Paula's put up with a lot, but I simply had to take a proper look around this dusty old town. "So what've you got?" she asks, wandering over to the bench and picking up a rusty old syringe.

"A doctor's surgery," I say. "Basic even by the standards of the 1920s. I mean, there's no way a place like this could have been kept sterile."

"I guess you had to take what you could get back then," she replies. "If this guy was the only doctor in town, he was better than nothing."

"His name," I say, picking up a framed medical certificate and handing it to her, "was Marshall Collings. Seems he had proper medical training, at least. God knows how he ended up here, practicing in a tin hut in the middle of nowhere."

"Maybe he was running from something," she says. "I can see how a place like Devil's Briar might be useful for people who wanted to start over and forget their old lives. Speaking of which, don't we need to start thinking about getting out of here?" She pauses for a moment, waiting for me to say something. "Bill, you said we could leave today. Unless you've magically found some gas, we need to start getting ready for a hell of a walk."

"I know," I say. "We'll go in a couple of hours."

She sighs. "The sooner we get back to Boston, the sooner you can get a proper team together and come look over this place. Besides, don't you want to start doing some background research? Don't you want to find out who this Dr.

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