Scary Bits from Barbara Karmazin’s Night Moves
By LMReviews on Nov 15, 2008 in Multicultural Contributors, Multicultural Writing
As promised a scary morsel from Barbara Karmazin’s Night Moves! Of course they all deal with the psycho-vamp. Maybe I’m a little obsessed… 
The insurance adjuster placed the phone receiver in its cradle. Sweat beaded on his pasty face. The copper tang of fresh fear oozed from his pores like blood. “Ms. Thompson says she’ll be here in about fifteen minutes.”
Eamon leaned over the desk, opened his laptop and connected it to the agent’s PC. A few clicks on the keyboard brought up Ms. Thompson’s data and downloaded it to the laptop. The insurance agent squirmed in his seat.
Eamon held the man down with the sheer strength of his will and drank the bliss of raw terror. The agent’s fear turned into silent paralysis. A black-tinged rainbow streamed from the man’s mouth, eyes, nose and ears into Eamon and flooded him with heady delight.
Terror gibbered and wailed through his victim’s mind and soul, swamping the man’s brain with adrenalin. His body jerked up like a puppet on strings. His heart struggled so hard to beat it looked like it was going to explode from his chest. He took a gratifyingly long time to die.
It wasn’t enough.
The human had no trace of psychic ability to enhance the flavor of his death. Eamon stepped back, pulled a handkerchief from his jacket pocket and wiped the flecks of saliva from his mouth. He straightened his tie, shut down his laptop and slipped the machine into a sleek, black leather briefcase.
He exited the cubicle and strolled past the work areas of more agents and clerical personnel typing data into their computers and speaking quietly into their phones. Using a miniscule portion of the power he’d drawn, he radiated a simple compulsion of forgetfulness over the office.
No one would remember him.
Text is copyrighted work excerpted from Barbara Karmazin’s Night Moves.
Is your spine tingling yet? Don’t worry, there’s one more tomorrow!
