The Girl in Red

by Christina Henry

Men like him were everywhere, before and after the world fell apart, and it didn’t take any great perception to see what was in their eyes.

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She wasn’t under any obligation to be polite to someone who thought she was his next victim.

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Red didn’t like to think of herself as a killer, but she wasn’t about to let herself get eaten up just because she was a woman alone in the woods.

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Red would not be a hunted thing. She didn’t want to be scooped up in anyone’s butterfly net and pinned to a board.

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People didn’t often surprise her because she always expected the worst of them.

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Artificial colors might be perfectly safe, but then everyone thought it was okay to put arsenic in wallpaper once upon a time and she didn’t think that had worked out too well.

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The only consolation in being a survivor was that you’d survived.

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Apparently it was now the Apocalypse and screw anybody who couldn’t keep up.

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There are a lot of monsters out there, and all of them look like humans,”

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Human monsters were everywhere, roaming free without the leash of civilization to hold them.

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