The Pulse: Book 1 in the Pulse Trilogy by Shoshanna Evers

Author:Shoshanna Evers [Evers, Shoshanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2013-11-25T05:00:00+00:00

OH MY God, Emily thought, feeling the walls of the New York State Psychiatric Institute closing in on her. Chaz and his psych patient girlfriend Amy were cannibals.

The sight of the human carcass on the hospital bed with chunks of meat filleted off of it was too much to bear. Emily turned and threw up bile onto the floor, her stomach cramping painfully.

Maggots were crawling through the corpse’s rotting flesh. Chaz had apparently been cutting meat from the thighs to cook for him and Amy that evening.

“You’re welcome to eat,” Chaz said. “Eat! It’s good.”

Emily felt like she might cry. Did Chaz and Amy even understand what they were doing? She didn’t think so. Off their medications, they were so far gone they believed that their friends and doctors and nurses were still with them, albeit quieter.

Mason took Emily firmly by the hand and led her out of the room. “Chaz,” he said, “is there anyone left who still moves and talks?”

“No.” Chaz grinned again, and Emily felt another wave of nausea come over her.

Mason looked at her, concern creasing his forehead, and took her hand again. “Thank you, Chaz, for your hospitality. Say good-bye to Amy for us.”

They ran, rushing down the hall, trying not to see the corpses or smell the urine and feces and rotting flesh. Mason pushed the door open and they flew out of the building, gasping for fresh air.

“Keep going,” Mason said, urging her forward. She ran with him until they were back on the Hudson River Parkway, where they slowed to a steady pace.

It was starting to get dark, and colder.

“I can’t believe that,” she whispered, when she felt able to speak again.

“I knew something wasn’t right, for him to be looking so well fed.”

“Are others doing that, you think? Eating the dead?”

He nodded. “Yes, I imagine they are. But there’s something that feels so wrong about it, you know? I remember hearing that story about the people who survived a plane crash in the middle of nowhere, and there was no food, just frozen dead people, and they ate the dead people to live. I don’t know if I could do that.”

“I don’t think I would be able to keep it down. I’d vomit at the thought, much less actually having it in my mouth.” Bile rose in her throat again, as if to prove her point.

“If I thought you were going to die, though, from starvation, I’d want you to eat a person,” Mason said, looking at her even as he kept walking.

“I wouldn’t do it.”

“I wouldn’t be giving you a choice, I imagine,” he said softly.

“There’s no point in talking about it,” she said, although she feared if they kept walking without food for much longer, they would get to a desperate situation. “I know you want to get out of the city, but we need to find someplace to spend the night. It’s going to get cold and dark and I can’t imagine continuing like this.”

He sighed. “All right. And we need to find some food, too.

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