Blooded: Dead Things by A.D. Key

Author:A.D. Key [Key, A.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Candlewick Publishing
Published: 2019-03-26T05:00:00+00:00

…Wrong. The silence. It is just…wrong. And the colors are definitely not right: black and white.

Light curly hair waves up and down. The girl’s face anxiously fixed like it knows something horrible is going to happen but awaits anyway. The columns on either side of her contrast to a bright white as if it were underneath a huge black light.

The angle changes like a camera rotating behind the young female. She disappears. The sky is now light green and the grass a deep blue. As if peering down from above, Leon sees the girl lying on her back on a set of steps separating the snow colored columns. Her head rests against a porch while a silhouette feasts on her stomach.

She screams. But silence mutes the audio.

Slightly to the right of the two, an unseen sun—until now—quickly becomes eaten from the outside in by darkness, expelling rays of crimson.

The screaming girl dies.

Falling from the green sky—clouded by a mass of yellow hair—an assumed feminine body smashes without a sound into the unmoving blueness. Without hesitation, the earth surrounding her rots and webs of black expand outward from her body. The foundation underneath the dead girl with blonde curls and the feasting silhouette crumbles.

Like someone changing the television channel, a familiar image of no-show-bar girl covered in blood awakens the seer…

✽✽✽

“They’re sticky. And they sting.” Feeling the warm light on his face, Leon tried opening eyes. “And my arms are itchy.” Sitting up, confusion dominated him as Lana and Kimberly greeted him with worried expressions. I stood directly above his feet and perpetuated annoyance.

“Why am I not in the car?” Leon asked. His hands clinging to the grassy earth in the middle of the prairie field.

“You okay?” The voice that spoke to him isn’t the one he expected. Concerned, Lana placed a hand on his shoulder. “What did your vision contain?”

He looked up questionably, the sun shining in his eyes, to me. Obviously the composed girl had been informed while his eyes were closed to the world. But how much? My cousin was wondering. Leon accepted my held out hand, helping him to his feet. “My wrists and ankles are peculiarly sore…”

I wasn’t sure what he was talking about. Lana had helped restrain him. She couldn’t have hurt him could she?

“Yours,” I said putting the bloody rag in Leon’s palm. I stomped away, fuming through the field. Everything was upsetting me.

“Now what?” I heard Kimberly meagerly ask while the three of them followed suit to the vehicles.

I pretended not to hear. Leon also ignored her. “What happened?” he asked Lana. That was the last thing I heard. None of this was part of my plan. And my anger caused me to zone out.

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