Monster
“It was as if time had folded back on itself and he was below the waterfall again. The creature he never quite saw that night stood across the clearing plainly visible, a reddish version of Arlen’s photograph, but so much bigger in real life. Just as before, it held Beck—but what had happened to her? The pitiful woman in that creature’s arms was dirty all over, smeared with mud and . . . it looked like manure! Her face was bruised, and one eye was puffy. Grass and weeds hung from every chink in ...her clothing, the front of her shirt was stained with blood, and now she was making sounds like an animal.
In the center of the clearing lay a grotesque, fly-infested corpse that shattered all of his previous assumptions.
Rachel growled low in her throat and began to back away.
Beck shot a hand toward Reed and cried out like a Sasquatch, pleading, “Ohh, oh-oh-oh, Reeeeed!”
Rachel hesitated, huffing air through her nostrils, her arms like steel, on the verge of fleeing. But something held her here; maybe, just maybe, she recognized this stranger.MoreLess
In the center of the clearing lay a grotesque, fly-infested corpse that shattered all of his previous assumptions.
Rachel growled low in her throat and began to back away.
Beck shot a hand toward Reed and cried out like a Sasquatch, pleading, “Ohh, oh-oh-oh, Reeeeed!”
Rachel hesitated, huffing air through her nostrils, her arms like steel, on the verge of fleeing. But something held her here; maybe, just maybe, she recognized this stranger.MoreLess
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