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Slipstream
by Doug Hewitt
Category: Horror/Science Fiction
Description: After a four-year stint in the Marine Corps, Scott Pritchard should have left government service. The dreams were getting worse. But he talked himself into applying for top-secret security assignments. Finally off the active duty rosters, his head was crowded, jam-packed tighter than sardines in a can, and he was sure the monsters were coming for him. Some people called him an insane son of a bitch; he knew he was just unfocused. And now the military wanted him for a special assignment. R&D had blown open the inner gates of hell, and it was up to Scott to close them. He could've told them the monsters were coming for him.
eBook Publisher: Scrybe Press, 2004 Scrybe Press
eBookwise Release Date: August 2004
 
25 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats: OEBFF Format (IMP) [26 KB]
Words: 4309
Reading time: 12-17 min.
He lowered himself to a knee, found that the bodies beside him were still breathing, and assumed others in the room were likewise alive, all except one, that is. A young, thin man in a lab coat had fallen and cracked his head and was now lying in a large splotch of dried blood....
"The blue light dimmed and began pulsing, throbbing, and then it was joined by a whoom, whoom, whoom, faintly audible like distant bass drums. "Walls turned syrupy and dripped, peeling away, cascading down like paper-thin waterfalls. The air in the lab came alive, churning like heavy rapids. "The researchers had really blown this one. While searching for some exotic quantum particle, they'd blown open the inner gates of hell. Only hell wasn't a destination far below the crust of the earth, it was all around, everywhere, waiting..."
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