In the Deathroom (30)
Fletcher shot him twice, once in the chest and once in the face. The face-shot tore off most of Ramón’s nose and right cheek, but the big man in the brown uniform came on just the same, roaring, the ciga-rette still dangling from his eye, his big sausage fingers, a silver ring on one of them, opening and closing.
Ramón stumbled over Escobar just as Escobar had stumbled over the chair. Fletcher had a moment to think of a famous cartoon that shows fish in a line, each with his mouth open to eat the next one down in size. The Food Chain, that drawing was called.
Ramón, facedown and with two bullets in him, reached out and clamped a hand on Fletcher’s ankle. Fletcher tore free, staggered, and fired a fourth shot into the ceiling when he did. Dust sifted down. There was a strong smell of gunsmoke in the room now. Fletcher looked at the door. The woman was still there, yanking at the doorknob with one hand and fumbling at the turn-lock with the other hand, but she couldn’t open the door. If she’d been able to, she’d have already done it. She’d be all the way down the hall by now, and screaming bloody murder up the stairs.
Taken From:Stephen king everything’s eventual
