The Race by Nathalie M.L. Römer

Author:Nathalie M.L. Römer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alien invasion, Earth attack, human extinction, aliens take over Earth, end of the world story
Publisher: Emerentsia QuickReads
Published: 2022-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

TAYLOR PUSHES AGAINST the alien with a boot. It flops a bit, and the arm it had held against its head falls into the dust of the growing field. A moment later, the body oozes out a liquid that darkens the soil below their feet.

“Is that their blood?” Brianne asks.

“I guess so,” Sam answers quietly. “I guess we’re the first ones to see any of them bleed...”

“We need to dig a hole quickly before any bio-scanners come,” Joey hisses.

“There’s a dip in the ground near the boulder,” Kaylee suggests, pointing to their left, “so if we make that deeper we have an easier task to—” She doesn’t finish the comment because a sob escapes.

“Are you crying about killing one of them?” Taylor asks.

“NO,” Kaylee answers, “this just reminds me of seeing them taking away the parents of a friend, and the mother fell over and they hit her so often she never got up...”

“I think all of us have horror stories to share with whoever is inside that cave and waiting for us,” Addie grunts. “But we must hurry before either the workers come here, or the bio-scanners do one of their surveys.”

“I see none,” Kaylee grunts.

“It doesn’t mean there are none,” Addie says, “and you know they’re fast...”

Kaylee flashes an angry stare at him, then she sighs before saying, “I guess I should tell at some point, right?”

“Tell us what?” Taylor asks.

“Well, about what happened two months ago...” Kaylee says. “I told Addie a few days ago, just after we’d departed...” Taylor gives Addie a questioning stare, then notices his friend looks away. Something of what Kaylee had told him had left him feeling ashamed, or something darker was going on...

“Kaylee, is it related to this... killing?” Taylor asks sharply. “Tell me!”

She nods as an answer, looking down now. Taylor steps towards her, then he grabs her by the shoulders. “Tell me, Kay, WHAT HAPPENED?”

“You don’t need to shout at me. I was going to tell you...” Kaylee says sheepishly. “I lied when I said I had seen none of them before. I was... errr... I belonged to a... gang. That’s an Old Earth word for people who are rebels in a way. We got into trouble when we killed several of them. We, that’s Bree and I, are the only ones left. My Pa said they’d help get away easily. I’m worried as nothing has happened yet. I’m scared that they killed my Pa because of what I did...”

Taylor smirks for a moment, then glances at Addie. “Is that why you keep staring at the sky?” he asks. “Like you’re expecting trouble?”

“Hmm,” Addie grunts in response without answering the last question, and he’s now glaring at Kaylee. Almost like he’s angry with her instead of Taylor, like she had been the one to keep secrets from him.

“Okay, I guess we got to hurry,” Taylor says. “First bury it, then make this area look as much as possible as nothing happened here...”

“You’re not angry with me?” Kaylee whispers. She barely can look up at Taylor after his outburst.

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