The Interlopers
“Suck it! SUCK IT!” Shanks cried. “Oh my God! Suck it!”
They were holed up in the upper floor of the Jensen’s farmhouse, Shanks and Monroe. Well, it used to belong to the Jensens, but not anymore. Nobody owns anything anymore.
“Oh my God, YES!” Shanks’ eyes rolled back in his head and he fell back onto the pillow. Sweat was beading and trickling off his bloodflushed face.
Monroe spit a mouthful of venom-tainted blood into the basin near the bed. A few drops landed on the front of her shirt, but she didn’t care to wipe it off.
“I think I about got it” she said, rinsing out her mouth with some bottled water. “These rattlers ain’t that bad up in these parts anyhow.”
“oh my god. . .” Shanks whimpered as he quickly wiped at a tear that had escaped his eyeball.
They were a good hundred miles from the nearest hospital, not that it mattered. You had to fend for yourself now, and watch out for the goddamned interlopers.
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