He didn’t waste any more time. He brought his carbine up and started firing in tight, controlled three-shot bursts. Just like he’d been trained. Charles had spent enough time on the firing range—and in real life, live fire operations—to know how to shoot, and how to hit what he aimed at.
Human targets, though, couldn’t move as fast as the thing in front of him. It got one foot up on the armrest of a train seat, then the other was on the headrest. Charles tried to track the thing but he couldn’t—it moved too fast as it crammed itself into the overhead luggage rack and wriggled toward him like a worm.
Suddenly it was above him, at head height, and its hands were reaching down for him. Charles tried to bring his weapon up, putting every ounce of speed he had into reacquiring his target.
The thing was faster. Its hands tore away Charles’s mask, and then its thumbs went for his eyes.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DAVID WELLINGTON was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The acclaimed author is most famous for his online serialized zombie novels, the Monster Island trilogy, then published by Three Rivers. In 2006, he began serializing Thirteen Bullets, a vampire novel at www.thirteenbullets.com. He lives in New York City.
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