Latest: The Journey of St. Laurent, Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Wreckage

The corridor smelled like old cabbage and rot. One of those musty smells that you swear you can see when you squint.

It didn’t smell like that when we went in there. What happened?

Splotches of blood from the infected alien’s retreat dotted the floor and led the way to the answer. The skirmish that had taken place may have been short, but it must have been furious.

Wreckage was everywhere. Something big had crashed into the wall of alien pods and completely taken out twelve or fifteen of them. Gunfire had shattered dozens more. Glass, twisted metal, and bodies sat in a giant puddle of who-knows-what-alien-growing-goo.

And there was noise too. A distant grinding of machinery, steady dripping, a disconcerting hissing, [...]