Here in the darkness of his hospital room.
Here in his bed.
On top of him.
The mouth eased away, leaving his lips wet.
“Karen.” he whispered.
“Owie.”
Chapter Sixty-five
DANA
He’ll kill me when he gets done.
Kill me, eat me.
Maybe not.
Maybe be likes me too much.
Maybe he’ll keep me alive.
If I can stay alive, maybe I can escape.
Or they’ll rescue me.
Tuck and Darke.
No, no, be lost them.
Long time ago.
Way too fast for ‘em.
OH!
Did they give up, go home?
Call the cops?
Call Eve, guys.
Call Eve.
OH!
Get Eve out of the hospital.
She’ll find me.
She’ll save me.
Eve of Destruction!
OH!
She’ll nail him.
Nail him good.
Nail him!
OH!
OH!
YES!!!
RICHARD LAYMON
Richard Laymon is the author of over 30 novels and 65 short stories. Though a native of Illinois and a long- time Californian, his name is more familiar to readers in Great Britain. Australia and New Zealand, as well as much of the rest of the world, where he is published in fifteen foreign languages. He has written such acclaimed novels as The Beast House. The Cellar, After Midnight, The Lake, Into the Fire, Come Out Tonight, Body Rides. To Wake the Dead. No Sanctuary, Island, Among the Messing, One Rainy Night, In the Dark, and Bite. The Traveling Vampire Show won a Bram Stoker Award for Novel of the Year in 2001. Two of his earlier novels (Flesh and Funland) and a short story collection (A Good, Secret Place) previously had been nominated for Bram Stoker Awards as well.
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