Falling From Grace by Stephen Melling

Author:Stephen Melling [Melling, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Wolfkind Press
Published: 2011-07-04T04:30:00+00:00

Feeling frostbitten and forlorn, Johnny trudged home and stood slumped beneath the hot shower, but the cold stayed with him. Even the old faithful ritual of self-appeasement failed; whenever he felt the stirrings of arousal, an image rose of Sarah writhing beneath a sticks and straw lover. Eventually he shut off the shower and approached the mirror, wiped an arc in the condensation and regarded his reflection.

Had Sarah left him because he was going insane? Or was he losing his mind because he’d lost her? Trickles of condensation distorted his image until he no longer recognized himself.

Alone at the kitchen table he uncorked a bottle of red. He drank until his head spun too quickly for hurtful thoughts to take hold. He felt massively weary, but his body refused to close down. When his glass was empty he rose slowly and returned naked to the mirror, where he stared himself out, hoping for enlightenment but getting none.

Perhaps, he thought, remembering the scarecrow, the answer lay deeper.

A steadying hand on the washbasin, he reached for his razor, held his palm upward and pressed the blade hard against his wrist.

Let it be blood, he thought. Surely only a genuine, flesh and blood human being could feel so much hurt. So let it be blood; warm and crimson and spurting.

Swaying on his feet, he sucked air, closed his eyes and pulled hard on the blade.

He looked down. “Oh no.”

Lord, how it hurt.

And finally, Johnny understood.

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