Symbiote by Trevor Schmidt

Author:Trevor Schmidt
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Published: 2014-09-04T22:00:00+00:00

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Neil Meriwether gripped a towel rack in the bathroom of an unfinished apartment. He heard footsteps approaching and froze. The steps stopped short of the door. His heart pounded, beads of sweat collecting on his forehead before finding their way down his gaunt face. Adrenaline coursed through his body sending a tingling sensation to his extremities. Neil closed his eyes and tried to remember how he’d gotten there.

A parking garage, a crowded street, a police chase; they were singular images without meaning. I’m losing my mind, he thought. Confusion became anger, boiling his shrunken belly. He felt ‘The Other’ creeping inside his head. Neil didn’t fight it. He couldn’t fight it. He didn’t know what to do without it. In a moment, Neil was gone, replaced by something else.

He grasped the towel rack harder and pulled it from the wall. In a single motion, he stepped out from the bathroom and swung the rod at the detective’s head, connecting with a brutal blow that echoed throughout the empty apartment. The detective fell back, their weapon slipping from their hand as they fell. He stopped dead, sniffing the air, terrified. He dropped the metal bar and ran to the body, putting its hand over the flowing wound.

“No,” he said, aghast. “Why here?”

The detective’s eyes creaked open, dazed and glinting green in the slender light of the dusk. Neil hovered over the detective, bringing his face within inches of his own. He spoke in a tongue alien to Earth. The detective’s eyes widened. A noise from the other room broke his gaze. His head turned to the plastic doorway and then back to the detective’s waiting stare.

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