He was still straddling it, still panting, but not suffocating like he had been before. He reached up and felt the wetness on his cheek. He’d bloodied his nose. Bloodied a small circle of the branch for that matter. The men stood below him. “He’s not here,” one said. “There’s not one leaf that’s ...
The motion of the plane and looking through the binoculars made Frank’s stomach heave. He chewed his gum that had long ago lost its flavor and took in measured breaths to steady his gut and kept searching, but there was no Ed, no Jesus. There was everything else. A bored male driver. A woman driv...
They were now at the edge of the field, and what Sugar saw with the eyes of her soul horrified her. A dozen Walkers in their crab-spiked armor were herding the souls of the dead, using their spears to keep the orange skir at bay. Other Walkers were ranging out, calling out...
Dead animals lay about the houses. The bodies of the inhabitants were scattered about as well, but the bulk of them, both old and young, lay in piles next to the village workshop. Argoth dismounted. The wind whistled about the workshop and houses. Great numbers of flies fl...