Apex Magazine: Issue 116, January 2019 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apex Publications

The man put down the book he had been reading to the boy and now he sat in the kitchen drinking coffee and his head pulsed with pain. The woman moved around with a distracted air as though she simply could not sit still, and the man winced with the bright daylight and with the sound of cars outside, and each time he heard a horn he winced.

I couldn’t, he said, I couldn’t stay there in the hospital with him anymore.

I know.

I had, I had this dream that I could do something, that even now, just sitting here, I should be elsewhere, searching for—

I know, she said. I know. And then she burst out crying. She cried quietly. The tears just ran down her face and she never made a sound or tried to wipe them away. She kept moving, kept pacing the small kitchen from side to side. He rose to her. He put his hand on her cheek, felt her skin wet with tears.

There’s nothing, she said, savagely. There’s nothing, there’s nothing, there’s—!

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