On Blood Road by Steve Watkins

Author:Steve Watkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

We shouldn’t have eaten the monkey.

I find out first, an hour down the trail, when I’m hit by stomach cramps. I try to ignore them at first—I’ve had dysentery off and on since Saigon—but when they get too bad, I double over, drop to my knees, and vomit up everything I’ve eaten.

Five minutes later, Phuong is on the ground next to me, throwing up so hard that she ends up on her hands and knees, her AK-47 flung to the side. It’s noisy and nasty and violent and terrible in every way. My stomach is on fire. Phuong rolls onto her side and curls up in a fetal position, arms crossed over her abdomen, rocking and moaning.

I know we can’t stay here, exposed, so I crawl off the trail, pulling her with me, until we find our way into a stand of bamboo and enough space for a nest where we can collapse, hidden, until hopefully the monkey, whatever of it is still in our bodies, somehow can pass through without killing us.

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