Rooster by Sam Sisavath

Author:Sam Sisavath [Sisavath, Sam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Road To Babylon Media LLC
Published: 2017-10-14T23:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

“Oh God, oh God, look out!”

The voice came from the girl as she stumbled back, even as the boy with her struggled to unsling his rifle.

“Look out?” Keo thought. Look out for what?

He found out “what” when he glanced down and saw a severed hand on the floor—a hand!—reaching for one of his boots.

Keo jumped back, shouting, “Holy crap! Shoot it! Shoot it!”

But he should have been shouting “shoot them” because there were two of them. Hands, both clipped at the elbows, moving around on the floor, their fingers like spider legs carrying them frantically around Keo’s and the others’ feet.

“Do it, do it!” Keo shouted just before bullets punched into the concrete and spit chunks big and small at his pant legs. More than a few pelted his waist and chest, but he was too busy backing away to notice even as the boy continued to spray the area on full-auto.

The teenager didn’t stop shooting until both limbs had ceased moving entirely, thick viscous blood leaking out of them in small puddles. A pair of fingers, shot off at the joints, had ricocheted further down the hallway where they lay still.

Keo kicked at the same hand that had been reaching for him earlier, and it flew through the air, blood leaking out of the wrist spraying the wall with dark liquid as it went.

“Shit,” Pressley, standing next to him, said. “Did we get them all?”

“I think so,” Keo said. “There was only two, right?”

“I don’t know. If you say so…”

“I got them all,” the boy said.

“Are you sure?” the girl asked, before turning around to look behind her. “Are you sure, Brett?”

“Yeah, I’m sure, I’m sure,” the boy said. He was out of breath as he ejected his rifle’s magazine and snapped in a new one. Then, “I think?”

“I think you did,” Keo said.

“Yeah, you did,” Pressley said, when the distant pop-pop-pop of automatic rifle fire made her look back at the door.

No, not “distant,” just faint because of the closed door. The entrance was a thick blast door, and although it wasn’t completely soundproofed, it did a lot to dampen the noises coming from outside. The battle that was raging out there right now, except unlike earlier at the office building, this wasn’t human against human. This was human against inhuman.

They stood silently in the hallway and listened, no one saying a word. The only sounds came from the girl’s slightly labored breathing and the continuous pop-pop-pop of small arms on the other side of the door.

Keo glanced over at Pressley and wondered if he had the same look on his face: Better them than me.

Then an explosion, breaking through the monotony of gunfire. It was a small detonation and close by, and Keo thought the door quivered slightly against it, but that could have just been a trick of the limited light.

It’s not a party until someone breaks out the grenades, Keo thought even as the gunfire continued to rage. The good news was that they never

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