From Bone to Blood to Flesh and Back Again
From Bone to Blood to Flesh and Back Again
It would be inefficient to let him live any longer. The authorities will be searching for him. We’ll need to move quickly. The vehicle is unusable. That will make this more difficult. I stared down at Nick, lying helpless on the ground. I’d had my fun. I supposed it was time to listen to the […]
The trees slowly passed me by, like attendants of a solemn funeral march. I felt like I was on a conveyor belt, even though I was the one walking. Chase was whistling cheerfully ahead of me, occasionally extending an arm to drag his knife along a tree. Time passed, although I didn’t know how much,
Chase walked past me, wearing a wrinkled suit with a tie, the knot loose around his neck. I couldn’t believe what he was saying. “Where is it?” I asked. He leaned over the sound board to look out the window. “One of the guests. It will look like a woman.” Alarm bells were ringing in
I had scared my mom, limping out of my bedroom in the morning with a swollen face. It was impossible for me to track where each bruise had come from, the night had blended into a mess of nightmarish imagery in my memories. Eventually she accepted that I had gotten mugged and didn’t want to
I took the stairs five at a time, spinning at each landing and using the handrail to nearly throw myself down the next flight. My body protested, it had already been flung around enough tonight. I leapt down the last flight of stairs to the second floor and my legs buckled. My knees crashed painfully
Where? Where? Where is it? My flashlight had gone out when it was knocked out of my hand. I wasn’t sure if it was because of the gunshots, but I couldn’t see the monster. My eyes strained against the dark, trying to see past it, to locate the monster so at least I knew if
My bag rattled with items as I sifted through everything I had brought. Sitting on the steps of a church, holding my flashlight in my mouth, I took stock of what I had. Rope, duct tape, first aid kit, pepper spray… My fingers brushed the sheath of the hunting knife I borrowed from my mother
I slid into the booth across from Chase. It was loud and busy inside the restaurant. A sports team was jostling with each other around the drink machine. There were some tourists crowded around the windows on the far side, taking pictures of the towering Nentech building framed by the Sill. Chase grinned at me
After Mac and Claire said their goodbyes, I got ready and headed over to the dance studio. My head was buzzing with what I was going to ask Chase, but it was still an hour before we planned to meet. I needed to calm down and distract myself. A bell chimed as I opened the
I took a roundabout way home, trying to avoid people who might see me covered in blood and decide to call the cops. Luckily, the rain picked up again, and I didn’t see many people. It was past midnight at this point and while many people were still out partying, they seemed to be staying