Flesh

Flesh

Richard Laymon

Language: English

Pages: 355

ISBN: 0843961392

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


No one in town has ever seen anything like it: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh—but what it makes you do to others.

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supposed to stay here, but he needs to see me. I’m sure it will be okay, since I’m meeting him at Wally’s. There will be plenty of other people around, so please don’t worry. I’ll probably be back before you see this, but thought I’d leave a note anyway just in case you dropped by early and wondered what happened to me. Please don’t worry. I’ll be back as soon as possible. Believe me, the sooner the better. This was just something I had to do. Alison Cold and numb inside, Jake lurched to

lowered himself into a shooting crouch, and waited. He aimed at the road’s crest fifty yards away. “Come on, you mother.” Jake wished he had a .357 like the one Chuck carried. With that, he’d be able to kill a car. Jake would have to go for the driver. He had never shot anyone. But he knew this was it. He couldn’t let the bastard get away. Six slugs through the windshield. That should do it. The car burst into view, bounced on loose shocks as it hit the down slope, sped toward him. Wait

this was too good an opportunity to miss, and she’d already gone to so much trouble. What’s a little rain? I’ll get soaked. But I’ll scare the hell out of Roland. Besides, he had stuck it out this long. Left alone, he might very well make it till morning. Dana didn’t want to lose the bet. The money was no big deal, but the whole idea was to humiliate and destroy Roland. If he didn’t come running out of the restaurant in terror… I’ll do it. She struggled into her poncho, flipped up the hood

effect. Maybe tomorrow night. Do it again, only in Jason’s room. He had a full-length mirror. Maybe have him spread the flour on her. And she would do the same for him. And then they’d make it. Only one problem. Jason might not be overjoyed that she had paraded in front of Roland bare-ass naked. He should complain, the shit. He’s the one showed Roland the Polaroids. Dana took a trembling breath through the wool cap. Time to get going and give Roland the thrill of his life. She started across

mold of this man’s teeth and draw a blood sample,” Steve said, “and make a run over to Marlowe. I’ll call from there and let you know if it’s a match, but I’d be willing to bet on it.” “Call me at home,” Barney told him. “I got a hot poker game goin’.” “If this is the guy who killed the woman in Marlowe,” Jake said, “it pretty much clinches our theory.” “I think we can assume it’s clinched.” “Yeah,” Barney agreed. “So we got us a snake that gets inta guys an’ turns ’m into cannibals.

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