The Gospel of Z
“Just opening each one, looking in, then closing it.“He for real?” Glasses said.“Wallace!” Jory called down, smiling just to be seeing another person, one with their Pez-dispenser head in the proper position, and Wallace looked up, fixed them in his sights. Lifted his unsteady hand in greeting, that light behind him flickering again, going dark now.Jory’s hand kind of froze midwave.It was the moment he would remember, later.Wallace smiled a little, maybe, his old-man version of a secret grin, an...d shut the locker he was looking in, opened the next, shut it too, and by the time he got to the next one, Glasses and Jory were almost to him.“What you looking—?” Jory started to ask, but then Glasses’s spread hand was in Jory’s stomach, stopping him.“The camera, the camera,” Glasses was saying, snapping for. “This is classic, man.”It took Jory a moment to process—Sheryl stepped out of the pear room—and then that was all that was left: moments, frames.The first was in the locker—a ragged, dead cheerleader, hair forever long, skin sick, teeth broken.The next was her lips, thinning.Then it was her springing from the locker all at once, tearing into Glasses, Glasses falling back, her nails and teeth all into his face, his glasses skidding away into Wallace’s right shoe.MoreLess
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