EVELYN DIEDZ ….. …. … .. . I refuse to cower. Even though I’m afraid. I try to steel myself. Even though I’m not ready…
a novel of horror by Dee Emm Elms
EVELYN DIEDZ ….. …. … .. . I refuse to cower. Even though I’m afraid. I try to steel myself. Even though I’m not ready…
EVELYN DIEDZ Every part of my mind revolts against the hair in my mouth. I close my lips as much as I can. But he’s…
EVELYN DIEDZ I’m sick. More — sickened. Both at once. And sick in the sense of illness and in being a terrible person. I’m –…
EVELYN DIEDZ … and, oh, how I want to sleep … always want to sleep … always tired, always hoping I can stop … but…
EVELYN DIEDZ Falling upward, I’m pushing back — as I’m forced deeper into the grey hollowness. There’s no sign of Rick or Cameron, now. Memories…
EVELYN DIEDZ There’s fire everywhere. And I really do mean everywhere. All around. Covering Rick, me; even the sand beneath us is burning, and all the dunes…
EVELYN DIEDZ Rick’s bleeding hand grasps at my bleeding wrist. I have about half a second to watch as Rick’s bloody fingers cut through Cameron’s…
HILDA LEEK “Praise Bellbrun!” I cry. I mean it more now than I ever have before. This inhabitance will be the last, I know, and…
EVELYN DIEDZ The book has come back to me now. Brought back to my hand by- … … – well, okay, let’s try to come…
RANGI IHAKA A strange moment here, where I find myself. The woman who calls herself Evelyn Diedz. had fallen to the cavern floor. I’d noticed…