Black Tea and Other Tales by Samuel Marolla

Author:Samuel Marolla
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Supernatural, Dark Fantasy, ghost story, Italy, Milan
ISBN: 9788899216016
Publisher: Acheron Books
Published: 2014-10-19T16:00:00+00:00

A couple of weeks passed.

Luisa called to say that the mid-August holiday with the kid was off. She couldn’t come back from the seaside for some obscure, fucking reason, so it was all off until September. William called her a whore, she called him a dick, and they closed the call. In that instant he felt a thirst – an avid thirst – and fetched the bottle Cerutti had given him; he poured himself an inch of that wine as strong as vodka mixed with rocket fuel and guzzled it down. His thirst disappeared and a pleasantly warm feeling spread through his gut.

He seized an economics magazine and opened it at random. He came across an article on a top player in Italian economy. His fingers were itching already – he wanted to write. To write one of those summertime crocodiles that Ianfascia had assigned him. He didn’t have anything else to work on so there was nothing left to lose. But the man in the article was rather young and healthy. The crocodile would be useless. And yet… and yet… William Fiorucci didn’t have anything better to do or write so he wrote the man’s crocodile. It was a muggy night and the whore below went in and out of the Detroit Hotel, waddling under the hotel’s green neon. Fiorucci wrote and looked at her, he looked at her and wrote, and his piece came along swimmingly. He worked well into the night.

At four he collapsed on his bed, his clothes still on, his shirt open, still wearing his shoes, and curled up with his arms crossed. He still felt that slight warmth in his belly and every now and then it shot up into his throat in mild shocks. It was that wine – that fine wine – that made his head spin just so, that gave him that pleasant feeling of warmth in his belly, a pale blue fire, persuasive and friendly. He fell into a dreamless sleep.

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