Chapter 5: The Stench (3)
(Some descriptions in this chapter may be unsettling. Reader discretion advised.)
“What’s going on? What happened?”
“I heard someone died again at the Mayflower Apartments.”
“Again? How many is that now… That place must be cursed!”
“This makes the eighth one, I think. This time it was really terrifying. The guy was just walking down the street when he suddenly collapsed and stopped moving. I was right behind him—my God, it nearly scared me into a heart attack. The doctors were still trying to resuscitate him, but it’s been so long… he’s probably long dead by now…”
The buzzing chatter of the onlookers seeped through the car window and into the ears of Shelly and Everly.
Shelly’s face looked terrible.
He had always been a timid man to begin with. After several incidents in a row, Shelly had instinctively developed a fear of the Mayflower Apartments.
“So… earlier you told me that the Mayflower Apartments eat people. What exactly do you mean by that?” After hesitating for a moment, he asked the taxi driver.