Shut Up and Die! by Mark Gillespie

Author:Mark Gillespie [Gillespie, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-25T22:00:00+00:00

“TERRI!”

Reggie Ward was a human battering ram. He slammed his shoulder off the door, yet again with no luck.

“FERN! ELLIE!”

He had to break out of that twenty square foot prison. He had to get out and stop that twisted, junkie bastard hurting his family.

Killing his family.

He slammed his shoulder into the wood, again and again. Reggie felt no pain. That would come later. He kicked and pummelled the door with his fists, a voice screaming in the back of his mind, telling him that it taking too long. That Morgan was downstairs, killing them all.

He could hear the girls screaming. His girls. Morgan was yelling out sick threats, threatening to kill them and it sounded like he was hitting them too. God, what was he doing to them? Terri, his babies – they were in grave danger. And yet Ellie was still playing. Reggie could hear the music – a terrible, doom-laden thump-thump coming off the keyboard. Was Morgan forcing the poor child to play while her mother and sister were butchered in front of her?

“LET ME OUT OF HERE!”

Reggie turned to the bathroom window. It was a tiny square, one that wouldn’t open more than a couple of inches. Reggie pulled and pushed, trying to make something happen.

“C’MON!”

The screaming stopped downstairs.

Reggie gasped. He leapt at the bathroom door and pressed his ear against the wood. Nothing. He tried peering through the keyhole but couldn’t see a thing because of the damn key blocking the view.

The music stopped next.

The house was absolutely quiet.

“For Christ’s sake,” Reggie said, giving the door another hard kick. He was about to start yelling again when he heard someone walking upstairs.

“Who’s there?” he said. “Morgan? Is that you?”

There was a faint thump on the other side, like someone leaning against the door.

“You alright in there Reggie boy?”

“What did you do to my family?”

A pause.

Reggie felt like his brain was melting. “For Christ’s sake Morgan!” He hit the stubborn old oak but his strength was fading. It had all the impact of a fly crashing into a castle door.

“What do you think I did Reggie?”

“Stop it,” Reggie hissed. “For the love of God man, please just stop it. What the fuck did you do to…?”

“Don’t beg Reggie. It doesn’t suit you.”

“Tell me you cocksucker! What did you do to my family?”

“Just games Reggie,” Morgan said. “Relax, will you? It’s just games. Nothing to worry about.”

“What does that mean?” Reggie asked.

“That’s what my mum used to say to me,” Morgan said. “After she let me out the cupboard under the stairs. Just games Carter darling, just games. Nobody got hurt honey because it’s just games…”

“Where’s Terri?”

“…well by then I’d be half-insane with silence sickness. But she was always nice to me after and I could do anything I wanted for the rest of that day. Listen to as much rock and roll as I could take, and I could take a lot of it. Watch anything on TV, eat junk food, whatever man.”

“Where are my family?” Reggie said.

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