The Maze by Jordon Greene

Author:Jordon Greene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: halloween, murder, bloody, gory, scary, killer, splatterpunk, extreme horror, gory fiction, gory thriller
Publisher: Jordon Greene

5

“Are we turned around again?” Ken frowned cynically. “I swear I’ve seen this spot before.”

“I don’t think so, hon,” Tammy tried to console him.

Ken was beginning to feel claustrophobic, trapped. Each time they found themselves headed down another familiar hall, the more Ken fretted. This one was a familiar hall, the one they had started at in fact, but Tammy felt it best to withhold that tidbit of information, for her husband’s benefit.

“Yeah, we are,” Kayden disagreed. He couldn’t see his mother’s pursed lips and glare, trying to tell him to shut up in the dark red glow of the hall. “This is literally where we started.”

“Are you serious?” Ken almost shouted. His voice carried over the music and well past Kayden’s ears. Kayden winced, finally realizing what his mom had been trying to communicate.

Sorry, he mouthed.

Tammy rolled her eyes and put a consoling hand on Ken’s shoulder, pressing him forward, down a different hall than they had originally chosen.

“We’ll just try this path this time. Maybe we’ll have better luck,” she tried. “Just calm down, hon.”

Ken gulped in a deep breath and Kayden followed along for a moment before whipping around them to take the lead. His dad might not like it, but Kayden thought it was great. The creepy music, the old cheap animatronics, precisely placed motion detectors ready to spring some scare around the corner. That’s not to say that it didn’t make his heart race when some skeleton came popping out of the shadows a corridor or two back, though.

“Don’t wander off now, Kayden. We don’t need to get split up.” Tammy admonished the boy, waving with her free hand for him to come back.

He slowed his trot but kept a few feet ahead. He scanned the room, considering each wooden slat that formed a set of parallel walls, the corners where they met the cold concrete below, the dark rafters that hung above him. Kayden had caught on to the setup. At various locations, motion cameras had been cut into small holes in the wood to catch the maze walkers. Setting one off always sprung some well-placed scare just in time for the passerby to garner the full effect. So far, nothing.

They turned down another hall, splitting off to the left after Ken and Tammy argued for a good two minutes over which direction made the most sense, as if either of them had a clue which was really right. Kayden leaned back against the wall, eyebrow raised, watching. Finally, they took the left. Less than halfway down the new corridor, Kayden stopped them and pointed to an indention in the wall.

“Look,” he directed them, showing them the location of one of motion cameras. “There must be another trap up here.”

His parents were silent as they followed close behind Kayden. He stalked carefully forward, examining the walls and floor nearby. Apart from the natural imperfections in the wood, red paint splatters and the occasional fake strand of vine and spider web, the walls were unscathed. No telltale lines, other marks or indentations.

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