Fragments Chapter 8 Page 28

girls. The old man is armed with a shot gun and taking aim at some of the villagers as they head away from him but hesitates so long that they are out of range before he can make the shot.

Moe: Hey, check out Carroll’s. The old man Brian is stranded there with a few others.

Refocusing on the hardware shop and zeroing the rifle for distance Steve examines the group and starts to realise that this was why they were a recurring part of his dreams. His mind had been trying to tell him, but in a mixed up way.

He scans the area, what happened next would tell him a lot. A group of about seven of the crazed villagers rounds the corner onto the street adjacent to the store and they see Brian who stands exposed on the rooftop.