The Demon Dead by Arthur M. Wyatt

Author:Arthur M. Wyatt [Wyatt, Arthur M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction, Lang:en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2012-05-17T08:03:19+00:00

“How about that cold beer now,” he said as he climbed down.

“Sounds good. Lets get out of these wet clothes.”

“Right behind you.”

After changing clothes John looked around the cabin for the two cases of beer.

“It’s in the fridge,” Amy said, “over there by the sink.”

“We have a fridge?”

“Yes we do.”

“Well I’ll be damned,” John said.

“I put some in there before we left the dock. It won’t be cold but it will at least be cooler than it was. The rest are in the cabinet.”

“Great. Derek and I are going to sit outside and have one. Want to join us?”

“Maybe later. I think I’ll stay in here with Jimmy for a while.”

Derek came out of the stateroom dressed in his new clothes.

“How do they fit,” John asked.

“Not bad. We’re about the same height. They would have been to tight in the waist a week ago but fit pretty good now.”

John took two beers from the fridge and followed Derek out onto the back deck of the boat where they sat down in deck chairs.

The water was calm and rocked the boat gently as it lapped at the side. A cool breeze was blowing in from the Atlantic. The fresh sea air was refreshing. The smell of death they had become used to was absent. The Western horizon faded from orange to purple in the last light of dusk.

Derek took a long slow drink of his beer.

“Damn that’s good,” he said.

John turned his can up and relieved it of half its contents.

“Yeah it is,” he said wiping his chin, “If I only had my MP3 player and a little Megadeth, life would be good.”

Derek started laughing.

“What’s so funny?” John asked.

“Some dudes I was in the Army with were rabid about that stuff man. They used to argue about it all the time.”

“Argue about it?”

“Yeah man, argue,” Derek said.

“You were into thrash metal?” John asked.

“Briefly. Very briefly,” Derek said laughing. “The guys I hung out with were into it big time. We did a great deal of partying back then so it was always blaring. Either that or rap but mostly that.”

“What would they argue about?” John asked.

“This,” Derek said. “Megadeth or Metallica?”

“That’s easy. Megadeth,” John answered matter-of-factly, “hands down. No question about it. You have to look at the body of work. There’s no comparison dude. I mean come on... an entire CD with no lead guitar? What the hell was that all about?”

“Whoa take it easy dude... I don’t have a dog in this hunt. I’m just posing the same question to you that they would argue about. I’m talking about almost coming to blows sometimes,” Derek said laughing. “They were serious about that shit.”

John laughed. “Yeah well... you know.”

“Enough about thrash metal. Not really my cup of tea anyway but I’m happy to help you get that off your chest,” Derek said still laughing. “All that aside, What do you think our chances are?”

“I don’t know. I feel pretty good about it though. We’ve made it this far. I see no reason we can’t survive.

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