Excerpt from they feed
BY JASON PARENT
Copyright © 2017 by Jason Parent
Running.
Abigail wondered if there would ever be an
end to it. Well, surely, if those things caught her…
Better
not to think of it. Better to just run.
Bo had been the first out the door when the
light went out. The creatures had been waiting. They’d swarmed him, covering
his skin, like ants on a piece of candy that had fallen in the dirt. Any brains
they might have possessed were trumped by insatiable hunger. They’d ripped
through Bo like sharks through chum.
His hollering for help, his anguished pleas
for his brother, anyone, filled the night air with a soundtrack Abigail
couldn’t block out. She didn’t help him. No one did, not even his twin brother.
Instead, they ran. Bo had taken one for the
team. His screams had accentuated Abigail’s shame.
Better
not to think of it. Better to just run.
Her penlight was all the protection she had
against an army of those mud-skipping motherfuckers. She saw them everywhere,
even the places they weren’t, and heard them nipping at her heels. The
flashlight’s beam half circled up in front of her then moved behind her with
the sway of her arm. She tried to aim the beam erratically with each backswing
to keep those leech bastards guessing. Because if even one got past that
pathetic excuse for a light—
Better
not to think of it. Better to just run.
Cool air rushed into her lungs. Hot air came
out. Abigail wondered how long her legs would hold up after all they had been
through, or her feet after all the punishment they’d endured. She had let the
mud take her remaining sneaker as soon as she exited the shack, knowing she’d
be faster barefoot. Her endurance surprised her, but she knew it couldn’t last.
Maybe
I don’t need to hold up the longest. Maybe I just can’t be the slowest.
The thought of the others vying with her, and
she with them, in a game of survival of the fittest made the horror worse.
Better
not to think of it. Better to just run.
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WHERE WOLVES RUN
THE BEASTS WILL
FEED.
The
dense Bavarian forest outside the town of Rattenberg has long been rumored to
harbor something sinister, something wild — mythical beasts that vanish into
the shadowy woods after each attack, leaving carnage as the only evidence of
theirexistence. Many villagers turn a blind eye to what is happening, but those
who believe tremble at the mere whisper of the word: werewolf.
There
are those who stand and fight, however. Konrad is one such boy. Too poor to
live in the village, he and his mother fend for themselves in their forest
hovel alone for months at a time, his father preoccupied with mysterious
business abroad.
After
a vicious assault on their homestead, Konrad finds himself buried beneath his
mother’s mutilated body, escaping death only due to his father's chance return.
Alive, but taking no comfort in the presence of the man who had left him and
his mother to face death on their own, Konrad soon discovers that his father’s
work has followed him home…
…and
it's hungry.
AUTHOR BIO
In his head, Jason
Parent lives in many places, but in the real world, he calls New England his
home. The region offers an abundance of settings for his writing and many
wonderful places in which to write them. He currently resides in Rhode Island.
In a prior life,
Jason spent most of his time in front of a judge . . . as a civil litigator.
When he wanted a change, he traded in his cheap suits for flip flops and
designer stubble. The flops got repossessed the next day, and he's back in the
legal field . . . sorta. But that's another story.
When he's not working,
Jason likes to kayak, catch a movie, and travel any place that will let him
enter. And read and write, of course--he does that too sometimes.
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