What Hell May Come
So close it could taste their flesh.
Louis broke. All that football practice aided him well in running from danger. Head still bloody, he dodged and weaved away from the unseen perils. His screams merged with the Cold Woman’s, then disappeared among the grave markers. Jon only wished he could follow, but he was rooted to the spot. He pulled Kathy’s head into his chest and held it. Eyes squeezed shut, tears dripped all over his shirt.
“It’s coming. It’s coming,” she cried.
He felt it too. Though the true nature of “it” was an unknown. Just a supreme sensation of impending evil, of a calamity yet to happen. A nuclear winter where Jon and Kathy were squashed bugs, trampled and forgotten.
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