The dead men by Matthew Christian Miller (free ebook novel txt) 📕

It was a dark and stormy night and I was running, running for my life. I was running from the dead men. Just one hour ago I was strapped to a table in the dead men’s lab with leather straps. All I had was a pocketknife and the cloths I had on. Suddenly a laser was turned on to cut up. Right when the laser was just about to cut off my arm I cut the straps and jumped five feet to the ground and started running.
When I started running the dead men shouted, “Get that boy”. I flung open the door and ran out to their shouts. Lightening struck the ground right next to me still I ran. Then, right when I lost the dead men behind a building a bolt of Lightning hit me on the head and my world went black.
When I came to I was outside or so I thought. There was a bright light when I tried to look around I couldn’t then, when the light dimmed, I saw I was in a lab of some sort. I then tried to move but I could not. I did not feel anything holding me down. Then someone was leaning over me. He said “John, John oh, thank goodness we found you but, please wake up.” I said “I am awake; I can see you, what is keeping me from moving.” All he said was “I think we lost him.”
Then I understood. I was dead. The reason I could not move was because I was in a life giving force field, only it was keeping me close to my body. I heard the monitor beeping. Then it went flat BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP. The man standing over me said, “It’s true he’s gone.” Then the monitor started going beep, beep. Then the he said “his heart is not gone but, his body, his, and his soul are gone.”
Then the force field was turned off and I started to rise away from my body. When I had gotten two feet from my body I stopped. I did not want to die just yet. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEP the monitor went flat again. The man that was standing over my still, cold, lifeless body started to walk away.
Then I heard an alarm. “INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT, ALL MEN TO THE ALPHA EXIT.” It went on to name all of the exits. I knew what was happing but I had nothing to worry about. I had a bonanza of defenders plus I had several other groups of people collaborating with all of my defenders. My defenders had a citadel on the lab. I could not have been more wrong.
I heard an explosion as the wall behind me fell down just barely missing me. The dead men took my body but I would follow them later like the old adage the dog always knows where he buried his bone I knew where they were taking my body or so I thought.

Publication Date: 11-19-2009

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