Feast by Jeremy Robinson

Author:Jeremy Robinson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, suspense, genetic engineering, dystopian, kaiju
Publisher: Breakneck Media

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The hurled potato missed its mark—Mason’s nose—but struck his forehead and sent the Ascot hat fluttering away. The blow did daze him, though, and as he stumbled back wiping at his eyes, Ella realized some of the soil clinging to the root vegetable had sprayed into his eyes.

A growl escaped her lips as she got her feet underneath her and sprang toward the man. She drove her fist into his gut. He doubled over, clutching his stomach with one hand while still pawing at his eyes with the other.

“Bitch,” he hissed.

Ella hooked her fingers and swiped at his face. She was aiming for his eyes, hoping to make his temporary vision problems permanent. Instead, she struck his cheek, digging three troughs through his skin. He screamed in pain, reeling back.

I’ve got him, she thought, eyeing the bulging jugular vein on his neck.

Her stomach churned. Survival in a post ExoGenetic world meant sometimes devolving into something like the beasts that now populated it. Occasionally, savagery was the only way to survive. And if it meant saving her family and ridding the world of one of its worst monsters, she would go down that path and deal with the ramifications to her soul another time.

Hooked fingers reached out, ready to latch on.

She opened her mouth, teeth bared. She lacked the sharp canines of a true predator, but the human jaw was strong enough to bite through raw human skin, muscles and veins. One bite. One bite and he’s done.

Ella dove for his neck.

And missed.

Mason’s heel slapped into a raised garden bed and he toppled backward. Ella sailed over his body, and when her shin struck the same bed, she sprawled onto the concrete floor, tumbling into a collection of hard metal gardening shovels, which collapsed atop her with a loud clanging.

Wounded, but not defeated, Ella shrugged off the shovels with an angry shout and leapt to her feet. She turned to continue her assault, but Mason was already up and facing her, standing in the garden bed. He had one eye squeezed shut, his left hand on his gut, and rivulets of blood running down his cheek, but his right hand clutched a handgun. He leveled the weapon at her chest. Then he moved it lower.

“How long will it take you to die, if I shoot you in the stomach?” he asked. “Hours, I imagine. Of course, shock will set in long before that. You won’t struggle much then, will you? No, you’ll be as docile as a bunny.” His face lit up with a grin. “Oh that’s good. Bunny. That’s going to be your name. I’ll even get you ears and a little fluffy tail to wear.” He frowned. “Or not. You won’t be any fun when you’re dead. My tastes aren’t that aberrant.”

“You need me alive,” Ella said, trying hard to hide her anger. “ExoGen—”

“Will believe whatever I tell them. You tried to escape. I had no choice.” He motioned to his bloody cheek. “I’ve got the wounds to prove it.

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