The Adventures of Lazarus Gray by Barry Reese

Author:Barry Reese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pulp, pulp adventure, barry reese
Publisher: Barry Reese

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Mr. Skull knew that the reservoir was off-limits now but there had to be some way he could bring death to the citizens of Sovereign. He had finally decided to drop Bone Dust right over downtown. The wind would carry the dust far and wide, spreading it so thin that it might not kill all it touched.

But it would burn and it would scar.

After bonding with the demon that now resided inside him, Garrison had realized what a curse he’d accepted. He was terrifying to behold, which both pleased and repulsed him. He was also driven half-mad by the creature’s voice in his head: it gave him great power and a long leash but it craved death and destruction, both of which Garrison found himself giving it in spades. That was the secret of it all: though he masqueraded as a mobster, Mr. Skull was as much a true killer as he was a criminal. Money was secondary in the end, a distant concern compared to the opportunity to sow terror amongst the innocent.

His plane banked to the west and down below lay the gambling ship known as The Heart of Fortune. It was a little over three miles off the Sovereign coast and the ship’s lights showed that a large crowd of revelers were enjoying themselves. Mr. Skull thought about dropping the Bone Dust here, just a few handfuls, to see what effect it would have on the gamblers. He held off, however, preferring to save it all for the more heavily populated areas. He spurred his plane to greater speeds and within moments land was once more beneath him. He saw the courthouse and city hall up ahead, recognizing them by their distinctive shapes.

To his great surprise, however, something rose up from below, rocketing toward him with tremendous speed. It took him a moment to realize that it was a small rocket fired from a bazooka – Mr. Skull had read up on the devices and knew that they’d first appeared on the scene back in the Great War. Originally known as Rocket-Powered Recoilless Weapons, they were quite deadly – sometimes as much so for the one firing it as the one on the receiving end.

Mr. Skull tried to avoid the missile but it came at him too quickly, shearing off the plane’s left wing and sending him hurtling toward the ground with smoke and fire trailing after him.

Skull unbuckled his seat restraint and began to crawl from his seat even as his plane hurtled to its destruction. He was going to come down on a large hill overlooking downtown, part of a district that mixed various small businesses with homes. Whether by divine providence or simple luck, the plane was on a direct course with a large playground and park that was currently empty.

Skull threw himself away from the plane, landing in a roll that carried him in the opposite direction from the crash. He felt the impact through the ground and felt the rush of heat as the gas tank exploded, but he was unharmed, aside from a few rips in his clothing.

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