Hellbound Hearts by Paul Kane & Marie O’Regan

Author:Paul Kane & Marie O’Regan
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2009-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

The Dark Materials Project

Sarah Langan

A lot of thoughts crossed Absalom’s mind when he discovered that his pregnant wife had left him. As he confronted his Mr. Coffee machine, bewildered by its myriad buttons, he wondered: Was it his halitosis? Was she a spy for ExxonMobil? He’d known her less than a year, and back then she’d had a man (or woman) on the side, so was the child even his? He looked at the refrigerator, where the kid’s sonogram was taped like an edible fetus, then around the empty kitchen. His wife was nowhere in sight.

He found her note on the passenger seat of their blue Saab. A tribute to the obvious:

I’m sorry. It’s getting too dangerous.

All My Love,

Mireille

On the radio, some NPR dipshit reported on Stanford University’s renegade black hole. The EPA had evacuated the entire campus and would soon do the same with all of Southern California. It was spreading too fast to contain. A nuke was the only way to hasten its collapse, but so far nobody wanted to suggest it.

As warmth poured through the vents that cold winter morning, he blew on his hands to get his fingers moving again, then set Mireille’s note ablaze with the car’s cigarette lighter. It didn’t crackle as it burned. Instead, it singed. His parents, his little brother, his college professors, his contemporaries, even his protégés—they’d all betrayed him. Stolen his work, lost faith, mocked his ambitions, taken jobs in other countries just to get away from him. Why had he expected that Mireille would be any different, just because he’d paid for her?

He looked up at their old colonial as he pulled from the driveway, and imagined that she was trapped inside the master bedroom while a voracious fire burned. Would she scream? Or would she maintain an infuriatingly stiff upper lip as the flames licked her cheeks? He hoped to find out.

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