"Craig Shaw Gardner - Cineverse 2 - Bride of the Slime Monster" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gardner Craig Shaw)

"DOCTOR DREAD TRIUMPHANT!"
"CINEVERSE DOOMED!"

And it didn't stop there. If that had been the extent of things, Roger still might have
been able to stand it. After all, he had become inured to hardship and surprise through
a life working in public relations. But no!

There had to be those disembodied voices, didn't there?

And what voices! First, there was this maniacal laughter:

"Ah hahahaha! Ah hahahaha!"

Roger could imagine the man's bald head, gleaming almost with a light of its own as
the man's mouth opened, pencil-thin mustache a-quiver, to pour forth that never-
ending stream of triumphant mirth.

"Ah hahahaha! Ah hahahaha!"

That laughter threatened to drive Roger into a frenzy. But the second voice did worse
than that.

"Roger," she said, "why did you fail me?"

"Delores!" he called, but she did not answer.

"Roger," she said again, "why did you fail me?"

"I couldn't help it!" he replied. "The ring slipped from my fingers. Big Louie grabbed
it from my—"

His voice died as he remembered the last thing he heard as he slipped away from the
Cineverse. It had been a gunshot, fired—no doubt—by Doctor Dread or one of his
insidious henchpeople. Had that bullet hit someone? What if Roger had escaped, only
to have someone else die in his place?
"Roger," Delores asked imploringly, "why did you fail me?"

He tried to think of something else he could say, but realized, before he could open
his mouth again, that it was no use. Wherever Delores' voice was coming from, she
could not, or would not, hear his answers.

He would not accept this! There must be some way—

"Delores," he whispered desperately.

The other voice answered:

"Ah hahahaha! Ah hahahaha!"

"Roger," Delores' voice followed, "why did you fail me?"