“Good luck,” he whispered, shaking in the cold, his body falling numb. He’d given his coat to someone else because he wouldn’t need it again.
He trudged towards the towering shape of the God, thinking about his parents, his old friends, and all the people he’d ever known. He spoke the names of the dead. The cold bit at his face. The wind swept snow into his eyes.
He halted no more than one hundred yards from the immense creature as it reared up from the ruin of the bunker and turned towards him. Its huge tendrils filled what remained of the sky. The ground trembled as the God shifted its bulk. Seth gritted his teeth against the flowering pain inside his head, as the God’s presence slithered into his mind. Smaller tendrils grabbed him. This was communion. This was the merging of flesh and minds.
Seth’s final act was one of sacrifice and fulfilment. He was absorbed in seconds. No more pain and no more guilt.
Full of souls and new flesh, the God of the Wasteland sang its terrible song to the cold.
THE END
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rich Hawkins hails from deep in the West Country, where a childhood of science fiction and horror films set him on the path to writing his own stories. He credits his love of horror and all things weird to his first viewing of John Carpenter's THE THING.
His debut novel THE LAST PLAGUE was nominated for a British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel in 2015. The sequel, THE LAST OUTPOST, was released in the autumn of 2015. The final novel in the trilogy, THE LAST SOLDIER, was released in March 2016.
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Table of Contents
THE COLD
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
CHAPTER TWELVE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN
CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT
CHAPTER TWENTY NINE
CHAPTER THIRTY
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
CHAPTER THIRTY TWO
CHAPTER THIRTY THREE
CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR
CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE
CHAPTER THIRTY SIX
CHAPTER THIRTY SEVEN
CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT
CHAPTER THIRTY NINE
CHAPTER FORTY
CHAPTER FORTY ONE
CHAPTER FORTY TWO
CHAPTER FORTY THREE
CHAPTER FORTY FOUR
CHAPTER FORTY FIVE
CHAPTER FORTY SIX
CHAPTER FORTY SEVEN
CHAPTER FORTY EIGHT
CHAPTER FORTY NINE
CHAPTER FIFTY
EPILOGUE
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