War Slut by Carlton Mellick Iii

Author:Carlton Mellick Iii [Mellick, Carlton Iii]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bizarro
ISBN: 9781933929538
Publisher: Eraserhead Press
Published: 2006-09-14T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

We wander the building. The floor in here is linoleum and it’s easier to walk. It’s also a bit warmer, but not much. All of the walls and furniture are white. Only the clothes on the mannequins have color.

Chauney and I separate from the others and take stairs up to the next floor.

“What do you think this place is?” Chauney asks.

“Some kind of museum, I’d say.”

“What kind of museum would they put in the Arctic?”

I shrug. Then say, “Or maybe it was some kind of hous-ing development from a long time ago that was never completed.

They put mannequins up to represent people, give a better view of their plan for when investors came to check the place out. It was probably abandoned ages ago after they lost funding.”

“What about all those cars under the ice?”

“Maybe there was an accident. The street could have split open and everything fell underwater. Maybe that’s how they lost their investors and had to leave this place.”

“You don’t think the draft dodgers built this?”

I shake my head.

“If there really ever were any draft dodgers they never came here,” I say. “This place is dead.” I hold up my wrist monitor. “No life signs at all. Perhaps the government recently got information on this place and told the Colonel to take his men to check it out. Just in case there were draft dodgers hiding out here.”

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“There could still be a dodger base somewhere,” she says.

“It could be under the ice where monitors can’t read.”

“I doubt it,” I say.

“Then what about Sweet?” she says. “You don’t think she was taken prisoner.

“Sweet got lost in the storm,” I say. “I’m sure she’s dead.”

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