Isis by Douglas Clegg

Author:Douglas Clegg
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780786751495
Publisher: Vanguard Press
Published: 2012-01-05T04:22:44+00:00

Something changed inside me during that fall. It was as if a window lifted in my mind, and I could see something I had not noticed a moment earlier. Yet, I did not understand what I saw—what I felt. It was as if a switch had been turned, and a room that had once been darkened became illuminated. I heard a voice whisper to me, Jack, swing up, and Jack swing down, up to the window, over the ground. Swing over the field and the garden wall—

I opened my eyes. I felt pain in my back and along my legs and arms, but I was alive. It seemed someone had put a mattress down below, and yet I knew no one had.

Harvey had been my mattress, my cradle.

He lay there, beneath me, holding me tight, his head smashed on the stones and a calm pool of blood beside him, diluted by raindrops.

I finished the rhyme for him, in my head, the voice of a little girl on a swing tied by rope to the thick branch of a tree.

But watch out for Jack Hackaway if you should fall.

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