Sentaku: A Short Story Anthology (eBook)

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Sentaku: A Short Story Anthology is a FREE ebook publication compiled and edited by Reid A. Peterson. Featured authors include Marshall Harrup, Dheepa Saravanan, Lorenzo Patelli, Marshall Harrup, Nathan Lundeen, Quentin Harrup and Arron Steep. When you download this short story anthology ebook, you’ll receive three file formats: EPUB, MOBI, and PDF. View other books by Reid A. Peterson.

Excerpt from “The Girl in the Rain” by Ian Harrup
Thinking quickly, Juliette noticed that the roof had fallen in such a way that the rubble pile extended nearly to the opening. Perhaps it could be climbed. She heard the rushing sound echo through the hall, and the scraping sound followed. The creature was closing in. That voice called out – where could it be coming from now?

“For your own sake, don’t go into that room!” With no other thought than to flee for her life, she sprang like a rabbit to the pile and began to climb. But when she was nearly to the top, several stones loosened and fell cascading to the ground. Her eyes followed the stones to an awful sight – the only thing that could possibly be worse than a long, scaly creature coming after her was the sight of a drone missile stuck in the floor of the library just below her. The loosened stones fell all around it.

Juliette knew she could have been done for, and that if anything else disturbed it, she could be dead in an instant. Somehow she had missed it in her haste. But then a shadow stretched across the opening in the roof, and the creature’s nightmarish head snaked through the hole. It came within a yard or two of Juliette, and then the most stupefying thing yet occurred. “Hop into my mouth if you want to live…”