Grind Your Bones to Dust by Nicholas Day

Author:Nicholas Day
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: death, serial killer, dark, western, disturbing, nihilism, 20th century
Publisher: Excession Press

PART THREE

Four men, myself included, set out to find the remains of my father and track down the man suspected of killing him, a fellow by the name of Louis Loving. Never did find Louis. Don’t suspect anyone ever will. Instead, we found something so much worse.

Wish to hell we’d never gone out there.

I had a responsibility to the three men I took with me into the desert. Owed my dear friend most of all, but the others demanded a debt as well. A good man ought to have every intention of paying back what is owed. And once delivered, I could attend my own grave matters with a clear conscience.

No way to forget what transpired during that long night. I dare any man tell me he could. Who would possibly believe any such thing without experiencing the perversity themselves? Only recourse seemed to be one of embrace and acceptance.

Knew but one way to reconcile all what come before. I set about to preparing reparation. Only when amends were made, in full, could I dare go back to that darkness.

I wanted to see him again.

***

My childhood friend Daniel Loving entered the world during a red evening in a late spring, according to my father. Nineteen Forty. Danny’s mother, Ruth, delivered the boy at a very young age when her heart still loved poetry, as she’d said on more than one occasion. Like a second mother to me. She often recalled that Danny seemed to be born searching. His father said little to, or of, Daniel.

Louis Loving cared for the boy and his wife but kept his emotions private. Man extended affections to my father but rarely anyone else. His love expressed itself through his distance, or so he thought. Danny grew up a wild youth because of this though his mother’s affections informed his actions, so, wild but not entirely reckless. Young man became a good fisherman and a skilled hunter. He learned to fight. And he believed these trades would make his father love him.

In all of the many things young Danny did, or set out to do, he searched most of all for a love which seemed missing. In all things, I believe, Danny spent his formative years searching for his father. And so, Danny’s affections were scattered like stars and, like stars, he seemed to wander when he became of age to do so. He never did wander too close to me. I’d have let him if he ever wanted, but we were not alike in that way. Eventually, his affections bought him no small amount of trouble in the form of a young woman’s growing belly and her aggrieved father, so Danny thought leaving town for the best. Though we’d grown apart, I found him work on a ranch not one day’s distance and for several months he earned keep and meant to save as much as possible in the hopes of making right the situation at home. But bad news cut his plan short and Danny found himself on the road back to Klamath Falls.

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