The Cannibal House

11. OUT

Lee stood at the entrance to Angie's room. It was open and she was gone. Lee had a chain of keys in his useless left hand (his shoulder throbbed with pain) and a machete in his right hand. He clutched it tightly.

    He was in a circular room, with orange light and rusty, grimy walls and about six rooms. At the beginning of the circle, a door marked OUT which led to a hallway. He unlocked all of the rooms. Two rooms had had Lee and Angie in it, that left four rooms. Three of the four had dead people in the chairs, each missing body parts.

    The first room he opened had a woman in the chair. She had no fingers on her left hand, no right arm, her right breast was hacked off, and there was a crater in her right side. All of her ribs were gone. Her right eye was plucked out and she was missing all of her top teeth. Her gummy smile was sad, her shirt said I'm with stupid and had an arrow pointing to the right.

    In the second room, next to the hallway door, was another girl. Her shirt said I'm with stupid as well, and had an arrow pointing to the left, where the other girl was. Lee took a deep breath and saw that her left ribs were missing and her throat was slit.

    The third room had a man with a crater at the crotch of his jeans, Lee knew instantly what was stolen from him, and his right arm was gone. There was blood covering his shirt with a fold of his shirt completely soaked in blood. He was freshly dead. On  closer inspection, Lee realized he wasn't looking at a flap of a shirt, but of skin. They had been digging around in him and probably took something. Lee bent over and upchucked on the ground. When he finished, after a spell of dry-heaving, he realized he didn't have time to look at the victims of Dandy and the old man.

    He realized his sister was next. He opened the hall door and started yelling at himself in his head for not leaving sooner, and that whatever happened to his sister was on him.