The Rising by Temple Mathews

Author:Temple Mathews
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781936661909
Publisher: American Academy of Pediatrics

The shedemons were up on First Avenue in a black Mercedes van that was rocking to the doom metal sounds of Dead Man’s Throne. It was a custom van, trimmed with red leather and fitted with a mini-bar and a table for four, upon which sat a cache of crystal meth in boxes. Each dose of the drug was in a mini-baggie with a red falcon stamped on it. Every dealer had their own “brand,” and this band of four shedemons called theirs Satan Dust. The shedemons were sparked, their eyes glazed, brains simmering in the toxic swamp that crank created when smoked. Two were texting on their phones, one was counting money, and the other would venture out onto the street to complete a delivery whenever an order was called in. The shedemons never worried about getting busted and weren’t particularly motivated by the money they raked in. They were doing his work, distributing evil in the form of what they laughingly called “crankenstein.”

They loaded the pipe with more white chunks, fired it up with a mini-blowtorch, and passed it around, sucking the smoke into their lungs. Their brains took off like jets. Sure, demons on sky rocks got the meth mouth and the face sores—because when you were jonesing you felt like things were crawling on your face and you had to claw at them—and the sallow skin and sunken eyes, just like humans. But sometimes the shedemons could make all those symptoms go away by calling upon his evil power, and they’d look normal or, even better, beautiful. It was so awesome to serve him. He was their everything. They had pledged their everlasting lives to him.

When they got the signal from below, the shedemons closed up shop, locked the van, and flew into an alley, where they stopped and popped a manhole cover, one of them lifting it out with a finger and flinging it aside like a paper plate. Smiling, eager for the hunt, and amped up for any action that came their way—and there was bound to be plenty of that—they dropped down into the darkness.

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