Blood Cult by Page Edwin

Author:Page, Edwin [Page, Edwin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Curved Brick
Published: 2015-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

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We drove south along the eighty-seven, heading back towards the encampment. The trip into Albany had taken longer than expected and it was already dark. I rode shotgun in the Raptor, Shane driving and Duncan as a passenger. The Chang brothers followed behind in a glorified shopping cart that was rammed with food. After finding plenty of painkillers and a good deal of morphine in the Cancer Unit, we’d raided the cafeteria for food supplies and taken them to the vehicles on a couple of gurneys. On the way back we’d stopped by a gun store. The door had been smashed in and most of the lethal weapons had been taken, but what I wanted wasn’t lethal.

I was starting to get excited, but I always did get nerves before going on stage. My hands were shaky and I tried to think how long it had been since I’d last performed. Atlanta’s farewell gig had been in the late eighties, but I’d been so drugged up back then I couldn’t recall much about it. However, I could remember the ‘come back’ gig we played in ’92. It didn’t sell out, but the fans said we had.

‘Holy shit!’ exclaimed Shane as he stared ahead.

I broke from my thoughts and looked through the windshield. Vehicles were parked all along the verge beside the field. It looked like Dodge had done a great job of coaxing people to come out of hiding, Dodge and God.

We drew up to the entrance and drove over the ruined section of hedge. The left-hand side of the field behind the semi-circle of school buses had become a packed parking lot. To the right, a couple of fires burned and around them milled hundreds of people, some carrying plastic cups and plates.

‘We’d better pull up behind the float,’ I instructed, Shane taking us over to the hedge as Mark broke off from the shadowed crowd and began to walk over.

I climbed out after we came to a stop, taking up the carryall that had been tucked between my legs.

‘We’ve run out of food,’ stated Mark as he came to a stop on the far side of the Raptor, the crowd at his back.

‘There’s plenty more,’ I replied over the roof, nodding towards the Changs as they pulled up behind.

Mark walked over to the car as I looked at the people gathered upon the field. There must have been at least five hundred that had come out of the city and the sounds of their expectant murmuring increased my nerves. Many were looking over, studying me with curious looks as they waited to find out about the cure and safety they had been promised.

‘Shane,’ I called as he got out on the far side.

He walked between the Raptor’s bumper and the tailgate of the parade float. ‘How we gonna do this?’ he asked, halting beside me and looking out across the mass of people.

‘I’ll send all the pure bloods over to the bus on the right. You and the Changs be ready to bag ‘em.

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