Flicker & Burn: A Cold Fury Novel by T.M. Goeglein

Author:T.M. Goeglein [Goeglein, T.M.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2013-08-20T07:00:00+00:00

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THAT NIGHT AS I SLEPT, MY SUBCONSCIOUS worked on the day’s events like a curator in a museum of oddities, sifting through black ice cream trucks in green subterranean tunnels, red-eyed kidnappers with silvery hypodermic needles, hundreds of furry gray martyrs, a blue-eyed beauty (which seemed the oddest item of all), and finally, a white face made even whiter by death. Carefully, with a delicate touch, each curiosity was sorted according to the fear it had caused, threat it posed, or guilt it created.

In the morning, I awoke with a need to confess.

I’d almost had my brain invaded, so I’d had no choice but to kill the creature with my own hands. It was done in self-defense, for survival, but the problem was, well—it had been undeniably pleasurable. A wave of fear (was I becoming Nicky “Daggers” Fratelli?) and self-loathing (had I been perverted by murder?) washed over me. The idea of telling someone what I’d done seemed like a lifeline back to the world of non-killers and I rushed into the main room of the Bird Cage Club looking for Doug, but seeing only Harry lift his drowsy head from the couch. It was Monday, a school day, and I glanced at the control center’s bank of clocks, realizing that I’d be late even if I left at that moment.

Doug wasn’t at the Bird Cage Club when I’d returned the previous day, either. I’d been in no shape to write down everything that had happened, including Heather’s blue-eyed revelation, so I scribbled only a short note, left it and the laptop from the ice cream truck on the control center, and dove into unconsciousness. It had read simply:

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