by Colleen Foley
Seth would wake in the car, for all the good it would do him.  I’d called Jimmy.  He’d be safe.
I
 followed a single vine now.  I’d had to remove my shirt.  It ran 
straight to the middle of my chest, a round, black, pulsing thing.  No 
oddity there, eh?  It becoming a tumor?
I felt her, somewhere ahead as I ran past small mounds.  A burial ground. 
The
 pain stopped.  I wanted to dig at my chest, unearth the thing inside.  I
 dug earth and rotted leaves instead, like a hoard of rabid gophers.  
Then I fell to her.
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