A Choir of Ill Children by Piccirilli Tom

Author:Piccirilli, Tom [Piccirilli, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2004-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

THAT IMMENSE BRAIN IS TWO-THIRDS WRATH NOW, unbalanced as neurotransmitters slither and slosh and Cole’s love diminishes in the misfiring synapses of heartbreak and rage. Sebastian is bitter and Jonah insane. Their hands are twitching, tongues unfurling, thoughts so distorted and loud that there’s a buzz at the base of my neck and the hair stands on end. I want to see their eyes but every time I come close those gnarled arms and legs whirl and block me. I think about those powerful hands that gripped me in my nightmare, protecting me from the depths of the swamp and what waited to strangle me there. The lungs wheeze and hiss, growls bleeding through. Cole tries to speak reassurances but they won’t let him talk. There’s no real poetry but the mouths mumble angry stanzas of indignation. They shamble and pirouette forward, the stunted distorted bodies quite beautiful and natural in their own way—the fluid angles and flesh of contorted bone, tendon and muscle are aesthetically elegant. The three shriveled forms merge to support the massive head, the unseen eyes, whirling and almost prancing. Sparks leap and pop across the carpeting. I speak Jonah’s name and he withdraws to the corner, dragging the rest of the scuffling bodies with him, where they are all consumed by shadows. Fingers point at the door and I leave.

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