Strange Short Tales 2

By Charles Wells
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Published: Dec. 31, 2011
Words: 19,740 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781465898289

Short description

If you like "Twilight Zone" syled writing then you'll find this second offering right up your reality. Included are six excerpts from the "Whispering Pines" Suspense Thriller series as well. Enjoy!

Extended description

A sudden uptick in the airflow sent a dark blast of heat and smoke over him. He dropped flat against the floor to get the best air he could. When it was past, he rose slowly and the old man was gone. Suddenly, a face mask was rammed over his cheeks and nose. Bill gasped into it and never had fresh air felt so good in his life. He could breathe again and the burning in his eyes started to fade.
"Easy Bill" Otis said kneeling next to him. He was holding the mask with one hand while clipping the holding straps in place with the other.
"Damn fool thing you did coming in here without an air supply. You know that don't you?"
Bill pointed down the hall and managed to say through quick breaths, "That way, Otis. Let's go. We don't have much time before that fuel tank blows."
Otis took Bill's left hand and clamped it onto the loose end of his fire coat. "You hang on tight and don't let go. I'll get us there." (Read more) A sudden uptick in the airflow sent a dark blast of heat and smoke over him. He dropped flat against the floor to get the best air he could. When it was past, he rose slowly and the old man was gone. Suddenly, a face mask was rammed over his cheeks and nose. Bill gasped into it and never had fresh air felt so good in his life. He could breathe again and the burning in his eyes started to fade.
"Easy Bill" Otis said kneeling next to him. He was holding the mask with one hand while clipping the holding straps in place with the other.
"Damn fool thing you did coming in here without an air supply. You know that don't you?"
Bill pointed down the hall and managed to say through quick breaths, "That way, Otis. Let's go. We don't have much time before that fuel tank blows."
Otis took Bill's left hand and clamped it onto the loose end of his fire coat. "You hang on tight and don't let go. I'll get us there."
Otis started crawling back down the hallway with Bill holding on until his eyes and lungs were recovered enough from the smoke inhalation. In his mind, Bill was drawing a mental map as they moved, trying to tract where they were in the complex. He had come in on the east side and crawled maybe fifty feet west. Add another ten feet that Otis had just taken them and now he figured they were about near the middle of the building. Then Otis turned northward down a side hall and they kept moving.
Twenty feet later, just as Bill was back to almost normal breathing thanks to the air mask, they ran into a blockage of bricks, timbers, and debris from the first explosion. Their forward path was now clogged by pieces of the collapsed wall.
Bill saw a possible opening on the right side of the pile and pointed. "Check there, O.T. We can squeezes around I think."
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suspense, georgia, book series, charles wells, strange horror

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