Nigh by Zachary Leeman

Author:Zachary Leeman [Leeman, Zachary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

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He liked the way his knuckles smelled when they started to bleed. He always had. He liked the crunch that rippled through the air when bone hit bone. He liked watching the gargling and spitting when a man was choking on his own blood, croaking and fighting for just a little more of whatever had pushed him in the first place.

It hadn’t always been like this. The details were different. Before there was some semblance of organization and rules. Money. Life. Cameras. Wife. Kids. The circumstances had been altered drastically, but he found it comforting that the feeling deep in his gut that had always fueled him did not falter or waver. It remained unchanged in the face of everything.

When it started, it was specific. A boiling rage that was a fire begging, pleading to be fed. Then it became an amorphous thing constantly moving through him, uncontrollable and unidentifiable, a hungry itch that ripped and clawed until it was unleashed.

The ragged wall of brick scraped across his fingers, tempting him, caressing him. He wanted to unload on it, release what was quickly building inside, but the shaking of the floor and the sounds of screaming and hollering ricocheting through the air reminded him what he was holding it all back for. He closed his eyes and let the vibrations work their way into his hands, electrifying him for what was to come, the feast he was about to have.

“Thirty seconds.” He didn’t look to see who had said it. All that mattered was that it was said. Thirty seconds until the chain around his neck was cut and he could breathe again.

The crowd roared and shook, the sounds dancing all around him.

They weren’t like they once were. They were animals now, the hunger in their eyes as clear as that of the people he was fighting.

He stepped back and took a few short swings into the air and then again, faster this time and then faster until he could feel his heart get warmer and his skin tingle.

“Time,” said a shadow at the door. He followed the shadow, the noises growing into a cacophony.

He made his way through them, eyes forward, target-locked on what lay ahead. He was so fucking hungry. In the opening stood the other man. His eyes were animal, his body shaking, ready to be cut loose. As he watched the man shake about, his eyes scratching at their sockets, the sounds around them drowned slowly until they were only a hum.

When the loud bang signified it was time, he watched as the man ran at him, careless, out of control. When the man was an arm’s length away, he lunged forward and hit him as quick and hard as he could. The man nearly toppled over. He took the opportunity to grab the back of the man’s head, dumbly sporting long locks of hair, and held it in place until his knee crunched his nose, the cracking sound piercing and then echoing through the air.

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