Grandpappy by Patrick C. Harrison III
Author:Patrick C. Harrison III [Harrison, Patrick C. III]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Adult
ISBN: 9798838179890
Google: 9P-lzwEACAAJ
Amazon: B0B1BJDFHS
Barnesnoble: B0B1BJDFHS
Goodreads: 61400466
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2022-01-01T05:00:00+00:00
twenty-one
I wake up drenched in sweat in Momâs old bed, the air conditioning unit in the window rattling like mad. The damn thing is probably sputtering slowly to its eventual demise. Without looking at the clock or my phone, I know itâs the middle of the night, sometime between two and three. My body tells me this somehow.
It wasnât the noisy AC unit or my sweat-soaked clothes that woke me.
Itâs the crying baby.
Iâm pretty sure Iâve heard it several nights in a row now. Maybe every night since Iâve been here, however many nights that is. Somewhere between two and two-dozen. Either way, Iâm getting sick of that crying.
âHush up with the crying!â I yell, rolling to my back and laying my arm across my eyes.
Iâm laying on top of the crumpled comforter, fully clothed, even with shoes on. The baby keeps crying. Louder now, I think.
âShut up the goddamn crying!â
The baby does not shut up the goddamn crying. It seems to get even louder. Or angrier. Do babies get angry? That cry sounds angry. Feed me some fucking mush and give me my fucking bottle, you lousy excuse for a parent, that cry says. Change my diaper! Wipe my ass! Pat my back and make me burp, you fucking slug of a human!
Babies are a lot like Grandpappy, except they make more noise.
Whose baby is that and why the hell is it in the house? Babies generally donât participate in breaking and entering operations. Not that Iâve ever heard of anyway. And they certainly donât do it one night after another. Maybe the bastard isnât in the house. Sure as hell sounds like it is, though. Grandpappyâs nearest neighbors arenât close enough for me to hear such a sound so clearly. Sounds like the fucker is in the hall right outside my door. I mean, my momâs former door.
âPlease get your baby out of the house before I call the police,â I say, not quite yelling. Iâm a reasonable man. If whoever is in the house takes the baby and leaves, Iâll happily do nothing but roll over and go back to sleep.
But the baby keeps crying.
âFuck,â I say, sitting up quickly, swinging my legs off the bed, my head suddenly twirling with dizziness. I think Iâm dehydrated or something.
Groaning, I lift myself from the bed and sway my way toward the door, feeling like Iâm walking on a boat in the high seas. I jerk the door open.
âI saidââ I start but then fall silent, blinking my eyes, adjusting to what Iâm seeing in the hallway.
There is the baby. Right outside the door, just the way it sounded, crying loud as ever.
Wellâ¦itâs not an entire baby; only half of one.
The head and torso of a baby are in the hallway crying. Itâs a chunky little thing, whatâs left of it, and its beefy arms are trying unsuccessfully to crawl across the floor. It would have a lot easier time if it had some legs to help push it along.
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