Dead City - 01
“I held the air bag off him like a drape. He turned towards me. There was a little bit of blood on his face and a musty-smelling white cloud inside the car that made me feel like I was inhaling ash.
“Hey, Marcus, can you hear me?”
He let out a shallow, tired sigh and opened his eyes very slowly. “Oh, man,” he said, and a thin grin crossed his face, “that sucked.”
I smiled too. I couldn’t help it. “You’re a fucking idiot, you know that?”
“You’d think I’d have that figured out by now, wouldn’t you?”
“Can you move?”
“No.”
“You can’t? What’s wrong?”
“You’re in the way.”
“You’re killing me, Marcus. You know that?”
“Not yet,” he said, chuckling as he pushed his way out of the car. “But I’m working on it.”
The smile didn’t last long, though. After I helped him out of the car he looked at the scene, at the bodies, at the girl whose torso had been ripped open and mostly eaten.
“What was she thinking? Why didn’t she run like I told her to?”
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