The Dead Show by Amanda Fasciano

Author:Amanda Fasciano [Fasciano, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-06T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The lobby of the prison let out through a now-defunct security checkpoint. Past the door was a large tile atrium. There were doors off of the atrium for administration offices and for the prison clinic. To their left was a locked heavy door made of iron bars that went to cell block A which had been considered general population. To their right was a similar door that led to cell block B. Cell block B was comprised of death row and solitary confinement. Directly in front of them was yet another door of iron bars guarding a shorter hallway. That hallway held the kitchen, cafeteria, showers, and rec room. A set of double doors at the end of that hallway led out to the yard and the gallows building as well as the laundry building.

Their footsteps echoed against the cinderblock walls as Liam, Teeny, and Aiden walked down the concrete hall of cellblock A with only their night vision cameras guiding the way. Snow and Cadence followed along with them, Roy Pruitt in tow. The living swung their cameras to and fro, peering into cells as if they expected to find some long lost prisoner still alive in his cell just waiting to be found. The residual spirits, mere recordings of the people they once were, moving in loops, went unseen as they paced their cells, slept on beds that had long ago had the mattresses removed from the frames, or stood by the bars, waiting for something. All of them were unseen by the three breathers as they recorded.

“I thought there would be more spirits here,” Cadence said, her voice quiet.

“Ain’t like walls stop ‘em anymore, missy,” Roy said. “They move ‘round the prison as they see fit now. Could be anywhere ‘round here, really.”

“As a monitor, I would have thought you would have a general idea of where they were,” Snow said, his voice also quiet, though Cadence caught a hint of disapproval in his tone.

“Eh, they’re prolly all in the cafeteria,” Roy said with a dismissive shrug.

“Where the riot happened that killed you?” Cadence saw Roy stiffen as she said that.

“Yes,” he replied, his voice terse and curt.

“Sorry,” she said after Snow gave her a pointed look. Do not taunt an unhappy, not-fun-ball monitor. She received the message loud and clear without Snow having to say a word.

“Let’s set up the camera here,” Liam said as they came to a stop mid-way down the corridor.

“Swivel one, right?” Teeny stopped and put down the backpack she had been carrying.

“You got it,” Liam said as he looked around. It was dark, but they could make out the cells on the two floors in the dim light of their flashlights. “Seems too quiet.”

“Maybe they are just drawing on energy, biding their time. It’s early yet,” Teeny said as Aiden helped her secure the camera onto the tripod they had rigged with a swivel.

“Still, this hardly seems worth all of the hand wringing and doomsaying that Aiden and his friends were doing yesterday,” Liam said.

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