A figure emerged and began running up the driveway. Dale stared down the length of his shotgun, tracing their approach when he shouted, “That’s far enough.” “Dale?” the voice asked and at once he recognized that it was Sandy. “There are men heading here―” “They’ve come and gone,” Dale said. “At l...
He doused the fire, searching immediately for any semblance of life. His brother’s body was naked, every corner of flesh blackened. In many parts, the skin, sprinkled with copious amounts of fine white powder from the extinguisher, had melted into an amorphous mass. Nicole was running toward them...
He returned to the western barricade near Pine Grove to find that a number of Willow Creek residents had gathered with horror on their faces. This was a scene one would expect to see on the nightly news in a Third World country. Not the USA. His son Gregory was in the crowd, along with Diane. Joh...
The sound of a woodpecker knocking away at the trunk of a dying tree told him otherwise. He stretched, feeling the stiff muscles in his back ache with pain. The shelter he’d built yesterday had kept him warm, although it certainly hadn’t done wonders for his spine. The mattress he and Diane share...