Sunny with a Chance of Monsters (Sunny Day, Paranormal Badass) by Sara King & Fred Garnet & Shaye Marlow

Author:Sara King & Fred Garnet & Shaye Marlow [King, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Majority Rules Publishing
Published: 2018-07-21T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10: Getting Out

Sunny jolted awake as her body tumbled forward. It was late morning and she was standing upright in an alder thicket, looking down at an unobtrusive layer of leaves.

Had she been sleepwalking?

Sunny stepped forward and turned to get a better look at where she was. Her foot hit something harder than the usual forest detritus under the leaves and she hesitated, remembering the dream filled with grumpy old men. On a wild hunch, she crouched and started brushing at the leaves with a hand.

A hatch appeared underneath her, hidden by the mulch. Sunny’s heart started to pound. Then…did that make the rest of the dream real, too?

Stay away from him, she remembered the old man saying…about another old man? Weird. It was probably just her starved sex drive subconsciously making its displeasure known—she hadn’t had anything but a couple random flings in three years, and both times, the guys had been too drunk to notice they kept forgetting what they were doing. Definitely nothing worth remembering.

“Weird,” she whispered. She carefully pulled the hatch open and looked inside. The interior was deep, either a hallway to a bunker or a much longer tunnel.

Here’s to nothing…

Sunny lowered herself into the darkened interior, which proved to be a tunnel.

The tunnel—which looked like it was some sort of old road culvert or water main—was dank and dark, and Sunny had to guide herself with a hand on the cold, insect-riddled metal because she couldn’t see her palm in front of her face.

After her eyes adjusted to the darkness, Sunny vaguely made out a light through the silhouettes of unidentified clinging insects, mold, and roots dropping from the walls and ceiling in front of her. She hurried her pace.

The tunnel came out under a wall of tropical plants, its opening completely hidden by the dense foliage. Carefully, Sunny crawled into the humid heat of the Chugiak Dome and looked around. She found herself in a ‘wild’ area on the edge of a park, complete with manicured lawns and blooming jasmine and plumerias.

She crawled out of the overgrown foliage and headed across the manicured lawns, ignoring the strange looks she got from a couple sunbathing on a towel.

“How you doing?” Sunny asked, approaching them. “Mind if I use your cell phone?”

The two glanced at each other like they thought Sunny was about to rob them.

“I don’t have a cell phone,” the man—who was too wealthy not to have a cell phone—said.

Sunny reached into his open backpack and took it.

“I’m calling the police!” the man cried as he jumped to his feet. His girlfriend had already started backing away.

“Yeah, you do that,” Sunny said, giving him her biggest, most cannibalistic grin. “I’ll just eat them too.”

She watched the word ‘eat’ cross the man’s face and he, too, started backing away.

Sunny lunged and hissed at him, and he scrambled and spun to get out of range…then stumbled to a slow halt. While he was standing there, dazed, Sunny walked off a few paces and called Daphne.

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