Fungal Tide by Ian Woodhead

Author:Ian Woodhead [Woodhead, Ian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arconos
Published: 2014-07-10T22:00:00+00:00

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He ran faster than he’d ever run in his whole life. The branches and the long weeds whipped his legs and chest, but despite the aching pain, Anthony kept running. His blowtorched lungs were close to exploding, but he bypassed the agony and focused on the tall brick building, rising up past Radfield’s new shopping mall in the middle of the town.

The police station was his last hope. He’d lost his mum, and his sister Christine; the green thing that was once his dad took care of them. Anthony cried out in shock when something solid crashed into his foot. The soft ground embraced his aching body as he fell.

He got to his knees and dared himself to look back. Anthony cried out with relief when all he could see behind him was an empty street. The monster wasn’t following him after all. His chest kissed the crushed grass when a low trumpeting sound echoed between the houses. Tears flew freely, his poor jumbled thoughts felt like the ingredients in his mum’s cake mixing bowl. Anthony fought his traitorous body as it attempted to convince him that he’d better just lie here, hidden in the long grass. Nobody could see him; for the minute, he was safe.

He jumped up. Nobody told him what to do, least of all his cowardly soul! Anthony checked behind him one more time before running over to a post office. He slammed his back against the wall next to a metal newspaper stand bolted to the wall and peered around the corner. It actually felt as if he was the last boy alive in this town. His guts clenched when that low trumpeting noise sounded again. Anthony took a deep breath before racing over the corner of the town’s new mall. He was nearly there, home free. There were bound to be somebody in there that could help him out. Anthony was sure of it.

The boy’s bladder finally gave up and released its contents down both of his thighs when Anthony saw three thick, green yellow appendages wrap around both his legs and left arm. The creature lifted his struggling body off the ground while another, thinner probe slid out from the top of the monster’s body.

Anthony screamed himself raw at the sight of the double hooked prongs at the tip, and a thin brown needle, dripping with blue pus, heading closer and closer to the boy’s neck. A heart-stopping agonising detonation of grinding pain burst through his body when the needle slid into the boy’s tender flesh.

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