Sam and I

Here's a small excerpt of my new story "Sam and I".


It was a torso.  It’s long, thin arms would reach out and anchor to the carpet before dragging itself ever closer to the edge of my bed.  It’s gray, leathery skin reflecting the ambient light; I could see several areas where the skin was no more and bone and muscle fiber were exposed.  Beyond the waist there was nothing more than a spinal cord tail and what I can only presume were what remained of the cadaver’s intestines, which looked like nightmarish tassels.  The creature’s head was down and I could see that the skull was only three quarters intact.  A gaping, black hole on the left side of its head gave a preview of a decaying brain, which would almost fall out of the skull as the corpse jerked from side to side as it crawled.  Just before it disappeared under my bed, the creature lifted up its head and looked at me with its lifeless, cloudy gray eyes.  One eye was slightly dislodged from its socket and was missing both eyelids. In lieu of a nose, a crimson outlined cavern of the deepest black.  Dried up lips shriveled back like burnt paper revealing a mouthful of unbecomingly white teeth in a sinister grin.  It stopped as our eyes met and let out a grunt.  Seconds passed like hours; the thing seeming to expect a reply, but nothing escaped my lips, not even breath.