The Graveyard Shift: A Horror Comedy (247 Demon Mart Book 1) by D.M. Guay

Author:D.M. Guay [Guay, D.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Oops. Sorry? That was hardly an apology, I thought as Bubby's ice-cold, blue prehensile tongue licked the last of the mustard pus guts off my shirt and my face. He freeze-hugged me when he was finished, and gurgled what I could only guess was another apology. I looked down. I had to give him props. He was a clean plater. My clothes looked virtually untouched, like they'd never been splashed with hell beast innards. Because I'd been spit-shined by a gigantic hell centipede. Gulp. Yeah. That's fine. Totally fine. Nothing to see here.

“We'll finish SummerSlam next Friday, okay? It's probably best if you head home tonight,” DeeDee said to Bubby, who shot DeeDee his biggest droopiest sad eyes. They hugged. Then he squeezed and blurped through the beer cave door and disappeared in a flash of blue light. DeeDee flipped what looked like a light switch, only red, by the beer cave door.

“This.” She pointed at it. “Is the manual override. Flip it up and down twice to close the gate when Bubby comes in or out. Don't forget he has to be all the way in or out. If any bit of him is in the gate, it won't close. In fact, the gate will get bigger, and we definitely don't want that. Got it?”

I nodded, but I'm not sure how much really sunk in. I couldn't stop thinking about the pus guts. “What the hell were those things, anyway?”

“What things?”

Really? Did I really need to spell it out? “The...things. You know, Fritos?”

“Oh those. They were gnats.” She shrugged.

“You're kidding.”

“I wish.”

“But gnats are tiny.”

“If you hadn't noticed, gate bugs are waaaay, way bigger,” she said. “And meaner. As a rule.”

Oh God. There were giant bugs in hell. Which meant there were probably giant hell spiders. Gulp. I can't even go there. “But...why were they invisible?”

“Well, some people up here call them No See Ems. Maybe that's literally true down there? I'm not sure, honestly.”

I closed my eyes and asked another question I probably didn't want answered. “What about Kevin?”

He wasn't a giant bug, but he was a talking bug, and he was nearly sucked into Bubby's mouth with the hell gnats. I had barely felt a tug, but Kevin was full-on wrapped up in Bubby's suction powers. Something was up.

“What about him?” She looked over at the counter.

Kevin was by the register, rocking back and forth in the roach equivalent of fetal position. (Would that be larval position? Ugh. So many questions!) He was clearly traumatized. Of course, I could hear the faint guitar licks of yet another Dio song pumping out of his speakers.

“Why did he almost get sucked into Bubby's mouth like those gnats, but we didn't?”

She snatched the meat of my arm and squeezed hard. “Don't talk about Kevin.” She was forcefully whispering now. That wasn't good.

“But—”

“Shhh. Zip it.” Then, in a voice so low you nearly had to be a T-Rex to hear it, she said. “He's unauthorized, okay? Illegal. So we can't talk about him, okay?”

“Wait.

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