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Chapter 260

Author: Memo Harbor
The windows were sealed shut, frozen solid beneath layers of ice and snow. No amount of pushing or kicking made them budge. The building had become an oven, and they were sitting ducks trapped inside. Smoked ducks.

Cyrus stood outside with his rifle. Yellow firelight bathed his face, warm and steady. He remembered a bonfire night in college when everyone laughed, sang, and danced beside the flames. It was a good memory.

Tonight's bonfire dwarfed that one. This fire was bigger, wilder, and far more honest.

Only then did the neighbors grasp what he was doing. Screams and corpse-like coughing rose from within the building, sending a chill through them.

The building had become a death cage. There was no escape.

Cyrus had blocked the only exit. They could stay inside and die, or they could come out and die faster.

Soon, someone broke. A figure staggered down the smoke-filled stairwell, choking, eyes useless. He stumbled and fell straight into the flames.

A piercing scream rang out. T
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