Hell Train (The Cursed Manuscripts) by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ulcerated Press
Published: 2022-05-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

“This shit is getting old,” said Kyle in the darkness. “Yo, Mudz, you okay, fam?”

“No, fam. Man is well fazed.”

Xavi grunted. “You killed Eric. We’re not going to let you get away with it.”

“Maybe man should shank the lot of you pussy holes, then. Walk away without witnesses.”

“Try it,” said Paul’s voice, a few feet in front of Clip. “Xavi,” he called out, “come back over this way with the rest of us. Last time the lights went out, we were attacked.”

“By dogs,” said Jay. “I don’t hear no dogs, bro.”

“Mudz is the one we should be afraid of,” said Clip.

“Real talk.”

“I hear something,” said Harley.

Clip listened but heard nothing. “What is it, Harley? What do you hear?”

“I hear my mum again.”

Help me, Clip-Clip.

Clip yelped and covered her mouth. The whispering was right in her ear. Her brother’s voice, and the woman’s.

Two live. All die.

Help me, Clip-Clip.

“What is it?” Xavi asked her, still further down the carriage.

“Nothing. It’s nothing.”

Footsteps in the aisle.

“Everyone, stay still,” warned Paul. “Anyone who comes near me is getting dropped on their arse.”

Clip reached out in the darkness, afraid that Mudz would suddenly stab her without warning. Now that he had murdered someone, he really had nothing to lose. She called out to Xavi, making sure he was okay.

“I’m okay,” he replied. “Just stay where you are.”

“I’m coming for you, bruv,” said Mudz in a spooky voice, followed by an over-the-top chuckle that sounded like the Chucky doll from the movies.

“Hell of a night,” said Grant. “Haven’t had this much fun since I toured with Amy Winehouse.”

“You really are a psychopath,” said Clip.

“I just like to look on the bright side.”

“Jesus Christ. There is no bright side.”

“I wouldn’t say that.”

Jay suddenly shouted, “Hey, back up. Whoever that is, back the hell up away from me.”

“Sorry,” said Grant. “My hands have a mind of their own sometimes.”

Clip sensed movement nearby. Everyone’s breathing was fitful and fevered, their panic rising. Her panic rising.

The lights came back on.

There were no dogs. No monsters. Just the same old train.

All is well. All is calm.

Clip doubled over, letting out a sigh of relief. Gina reached out and put a hand on her back.

Mudz was standing with Jay near the back of the carriage, while Kyle sat a few feet away from them. Paul and Dan were outside the operator’s cabin with Clip, Gina, and Harley. Xavi was further down the aisle, staring at the exit doors and muttering. “He’s gone. Just like his wife.”

Clip had to move down the aisle and join Xavi to get a better look at what he was staring at. Just as he had said, Eric’s body was gone.

Clip placed a hand on Xavi’s lower back. He was shivering. “Hopefully he’s gone to wherever Pat went to,” she said.

He looked at her. “You believe they’re in Heaven? You?”

“I wouldn’t have believed such a place existed when I woke up this morning, but now… Maybe the train crashed and we’re all bleeding out, one by one. This could be the place between life and death.

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