The Many (The End is Nigh Book 1) by Joe Stone

Author:Joe Stone [Stone, Joe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: demonic, possession, horror, zombies, paranormal, demons, occult, apocalypse
Publisher: Sindaph Publishing
Published: 2016-03-01T00:00:00+00:00

Amy

The three-mile drive to the Attleboro-Lenton town line was quiet. A few times they passed other vehicles heading in the opposite direction. Jason slowed the car down each time, perhaps hoping to exchange information or survivor stories, or just a simple “fucked up day we’re having, huh?” but the people inside sped by without so much as a wave. Amy didn’t mind. She wasn’t especially eager to meet anyone else today.

She clung to Duke with both arms in the back seats, occasionally dipping her face into his fur. It had been a long time since she’d been this close to a dog, and she was comforted by his earthy scent. Mark enforced a strict No-Pet policy in their home, citing all manner of arguments to stifle her protests (all the shedding they’d have to deal with, the inevitable deterioration of his precious back yard from all the urine and shit), and she’d eventually given up asking. Just another resentment added to a marriage that was chock-full of them.

“Oh my God,” Jason said, bringing the car to a rough stop. He stared raptly through the windshield.

Amy followed his gaze and felt her breath stick in her throat. “What is it?”

He got out of the car without answering. After a moment of hesitation, Amy followed. She worried Duke might run away without a leash, but he hopped out behind her before she could shut the door. She bit down on her bottom lip as she watched him take off at a brisk trot, then relaxed when he posted up at Jason’s side.

“Impossible,” Jason whispered as she came up behind him. “It’s ‌…‌ there’s just no way something like this can happen. Not here. We would have felt it.”

Amy was sure he was right about that. They stood in front of a chasm where no chasm had any business being. Just a few yards away from the spot where Lenton became Attleboro, the earth had separated and created a gap of open space easily twenty feet in width. Amy could see the white sign with WELCOME TO ATTLEBORO printed on it across the distance. She moved closer to the edge‌—‌

“Careful!” Jason said behind her.

‌—‌and peered down into the depths. Blackness. She had the terrible idea that the drop would go on forever, and if she were to fall into it, death would come not from impact with whatever bottom awaited, but from the slow process of dehydration.

She shivered.

Jason came up beside her. “It just goes on and on.” He waved his hand to the left and right. The chasm extended uninterrupted for as far as she could see in either direction, cleaving through the foundations of houses and separating them like a magician sawing a pretty assistant in half.

“Was it an earthquake?” she asked.

“I’ll grant you we’ve had more than a few distractions, but I think we’d have felt an earthquake, especially one big enough to do this. They would have felt it up in Canada.”

“What else could have done it?”

To this Jason had no response.

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