The Exquisite Corpse Volume 2 – Part 8: The Mistress of Death

Chapter 22  10:33 p.m. Herky Huffman/Bull Creek Wildlife Management Area Deer Park, FL If Joyce has spent the last half hour wandering in that occluded land between wakefulness and darkness, between a place of placid dreams and the urgent, scared whisperings of her reunited and broken family, the thick gasoline in her wounds kicks her

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Chapter 19  9:35 p.m. The Manager’s Office @ The Paradise Parlour Pompano Beach, FL The taste of blood is beginning to pool in the back of Zygmund Dervishi Jr.’s mouth. It mixes with an unfamiliar texture – either bile or stomach acid – which burns his esophagus. The faintly metallic sensation overwhelms his senses and

The Exquisite Corpse Volume 2 – Part 6: The Art of Violence

Chapter 16 6:30 p.m. Mr. Xu’s Armored Limousine US-1, outside Vero Beach, FL In his formative years, Mr. Xu had been a sickly child. Skinny and frail, the boys in the neighborhood had found him an easy target. He survived those years by hiding in the shadows. The hapless quarry pursued in an endless chase.