TYBEE ISLAN
ISLAND
By By Paul Paul Cales Cales & Becca
Continued from the March 2018 Beachcomber.
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Chapter 9 – The Side of His Eye
Day 4.5
30 TYBEE BEACHCOMBER | APRIL 2018
Becky, trying to guess what the matter is. No one else seems to notice
that Becky’s mouth is agape and her eyes are as large as a pair of vinyl
records.
The geeks are getting closer.
After swallowing his peaches, Nate speaks up again, with real
concern this time, “What is it Becky?”
The geeks are almost upon them.
Becky raises her arm and points. Nate turns and looks in the
direction she’s pointing then screams, “ZOMBIES!”
Everyone in the group immediately jumps up as the geeks surge
upon them.
Carrie trips over the log she was sitting on a moment before and
falls halfway into the camp fire. Jay rushes to her aid, grabs her by the
arm, and just as he begins to pull her from the fire he’s knocked away
by a hungry geek. As he’s wrestling to free himself from its grasp of
slime and horror, another geek lands on Carrie, tearing at her chest
with its chomping teeth. She starts screaming, “Get it off! It’s biting
me!”
Nate pulls his Beretta 9mm and fires one round into the head of
the geek attacking Jay. Tony takes aim at the three trailing geeks and
begins to fire as Brian grabs the geek that landed on Carrie by the legs
and begins to pull. The geek, attempting to keep its hold, latches onto
Carrie’s left breast with its teeth and tears a huge chunk of flesh away
as Brian yanks on the creature’s legs and pulls. Carrie wails in pain
as blood covers her midriff. Nate jumps over the fire to help Brian and
raises his pistol to shoot.
“Don’t shoot, you asshole!” Brian shouts at Nate. “It’s Howard!”
Becky is frozen. It’s as if she’s lost the ability to move or speak.
Terror has taken over her entire body and locked her in a struggle
between fight or flight. The geeks make their way slowly towards the
group. As Nate shoves a fork full of peaches into his mouth, he notices
that something is wrong with Becky.
The geeks are getting closer.
With his mouth full, Nate half-heartedly mumbles, “Whaaaaa…” at
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