Things Slip Through
Jarred whimpered as he blindly groped in the crate for something to defend himself with—a tire iron, a crowbar, anything—and desperate hope surged as his fingers curled around something wooden wrapped in worn, cracked tape.
The thing settled onto its haunches, gathering itself. “Let’s get it on!”
It sprang forward, a dark blur of decayed flesh, gnashing white teeth, blazing green eyes. Without thinking, he yanked the wooden object free of the crate and swung it with every ounce of strength he had, and only as it passed did he see . . .
It was a bat.
An old, worn Louisville Slugger.
His son’s old baseball bat. The one he’d given Bryan for his twelfth birthday, back when things had been good b
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