Slasher: the Escape of Richard Heinz by Iain Rob Wright

Author:Iain Rob Wright [Wright, Iain Rob]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: SalGad Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

6

Jessica managed to leap aside just as the gun bucked in Heinz’s fist. The sound was deafening and the muzzle-flash blinded her. All she could do in her frightened desperation was press the release on her CS canister and hold it out in front of her.

Hissssssss!

Her legs gave out and she tumbled onto her hands and knees. Her palm slipped on the wet mud and a jolt of pain ran up to her elbow. She screamed.

There was more gunfire. Jessica looked up to see Heinz dodging back, firing blindly as he covered his eyes with his forearm. Howard was taking cover in the toilet’s entrance, but he returned fire as best he could. Jessica considered getting up and trying to take Heinz down, but when she tried to push herself up, she instantly yelled out in agony.

Heinz continued firing blindly, his face a mask of agony as the CS gas burned his sinuses. Jessica had managed to save her own life by holding on to the canister. Turned out that it had been a match for a gun.

Click click click!

Heinz thrust the gun out, trying to make it fire, but it was empty. He tossed the gun aside, wiped at his eyes madly, then sprinted away into the shadows. Howard leapt out and took a shot at the fleeing killer, but his gun too was empty. “Damn it!” He reached into his pocket and pushed another clip in, but Heinz was already gone. He rushed over to Jessica and propped her up. “Are you okay?”

“I…I think my wrist is broken. No…no wait, it’s just a sprain. Did you manage to hit him?”

Howard shook his head. “The rain, the wind, the dark…”

Jessica nodded. Trying to hit a target in conditions like this was a challenge. She marched forward and shouted into the darkness. “You better give yourself up, Heinz, because if I have to come and find you, you’re going to regret it.”

“Jessica?”

Jessica was breathing like a wound-up pitbull. She spun on Howard with fury, but it wasn’t meant for him, so she reigned herself in. “We need to catch him, Howard. He’s a monster.”

Howard was leaning in the doorway of the lady’s toilets. In the entrance light he looked ghostly and pale. He was holding his palm up to her, which appeared black.

“What is it?” she asked him.

“I think it’s blood.” He indicated a glistening wet streak on the wall. Jessica got close enough to see that it was, in fact, a fresh blood stain. The tangy, metallic odour was unmistakable. The real question was did the blood belong to Heinz?

Jessica wiped the rain from her face and blinked. They were going to have to step inside the toilet block, but she didn’t want to. Something in her guts told her to run the other way. “The girl,” she said.

The lights inside came on automatically, presenting the scene like a crime scene slide suddenly appearing on a projector screen. Jessica went still, her eyes the only thing moving as they took it all in.

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