Flesh Eaters
“She caught him in the kidneys once and he lurched forward, his knees buckling. He managed to carry her as far as the open courtyard behind the old gas station before his foot caught on something hard under the water and he pitched forward, face-planting into the water. Madison tumbled out of his arms and tried to scramble back to her mother.“Madison, don’t!” he said. Jim grabbed her by the waist and pulled her back.“Let go of me! What the hell’s wrong with you? We can’t leave her.”He spun her a...round, and for a moment, the wild, bulging, unblinking intensity in her eyes frightened him. He’d never seen her so charged, so animated. It was as if she were giving off sparks.But he held on.“No,” he said. “You stay here with me.”“We can’t leave her back there.” Big fat tears welled up at the corners of her eyes and ran down her cheeks. “She’ll die back there.”“No, she won’t.”“How do you know that? You can’t be sure of that.”But he was sure. At that moment, with his daughter’s shoulders still gripped tightly in his hands, he knew it.MoreLess
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