Object X by Daniel Dean

Author:Daniel Dean
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2022-10-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Wendy ran along the grass—next to the curb—with Tommy clutching her wrist as opposed to her shirt. He demanded a more personal touch after what he'd just witnessed, and she needed reassurance that he was with her at all times without the burden of turning her head to check. She refused to slow down after what happened moments ago. She never even had a chance to learn that little boy's name. It felt like a particularly cruel ending to the life of someone so young and innocent, but that appeared to be the way of the world now.

Large spiders littered the streets as she caught a glimpse of the occasional sixteen-legged monster crawling on top of the long row of vehicles to their left out of the corner of her eye. Birds descended from the night sky without warning and attacked everyone from children to grown men. Baby spiders were far behind them now, but she remained convinced that they would encounter another adult spider with an egg sac attached to its back sooner rather than later. Despite all of this, she ran with a blissful ignorance typically reserved to six-year-old boys. She didn't take her time and carefully scheme her next step. Instead, she dashed along the grass, unsure of what awaited her, but desperate to leave it in her past. She crossed her fingers and hoped that the countless number of monsters surrounding them occupied themselves with the rest of the community. People would die. That much had been made obvious to anyone with any understanding of what took place, and she simply hoped that their number wouldn't be called anytime soon.

Hundreds of individual nightmares unfolded just to her left. Each came with their own screams. Some were accompanied by tears and pleas for a higher power to grant them mercy, while others suppressed their fear in a brave attempt to fight back. She'd yet to see any success, however. All she heard and saw was suffering. Pain—immense pain that few human beings ever deserved to experience. It was what she'd always imagined Hell being like.

Wendy observed the terrain before they arrived at Cedar Street. The intersection up ahead was blocked with abandoned vehicles, leaving everyone on the road unable to make it through town and access the highway unless they somehow found another way around or through the impenetrable traffic. The numerous headlights in the otherwise complete darkness created a somewhat surreal feeling. It shined light upon the battlefield, but failed to properly aid any of the combatants on the side being slaughtered so badly. These creatures thrived in the night. They seemed to operate as effortlessly in the darkness as most animals did during the day. Her fellow humans, unlike these beasts, found little comfort in sporadic lighting in the midst of extreme turmoil. For most folks in the street, light simply allowed them to accept their fate sooner.

She turned to her left, looking through the passenger-side window of a sharp black Lincoln Continental. The

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