King Henry Short Pack One (The King Henry Tapes) by Raley Richard

Author:Raley, Richard [Raley, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

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King Henry woke up in his bed at the Asylum.

Which did not best please him.

Welf laughing as someone hauled King Henry through the common room filled his mind.

Know what? Fuck the wall . . . know just what I fucking want to punch right about now.

It had been much too long since King Henry took a shot at Welf.

Think it make the Gap disappear, Price? Think it make you forget for just a moment?

He hoped so . . . he hoped so.

It had to be past midnight, but like King Henry could go back to sleep. He supposed some people handled their grief by doing nothing but sleeping. Ain’t no Gap in my sleep. Ain’t no hole in Mom’s chest. At least not when he was drugged up . . . but then King Henry got to thinking: what would he be dreaming about now that the Giant Fucking Needle medicine was out of his system?

Yeah, this shit is why people turn into alcoholics.

He got out of bed, happy to see that this time no one had changed his clothes while he was unconscious, since he was still in the jeans and t-shirt from the day before, not Asylum colors.

He knew that whole common room well enough to get around without light. He’d probably slipped out of bed to sneak around the Asylum more than any other student at the place. Feel for privacy curtain. Down to my knees. Down to my belly on the carpet. Roll under the curtain. Pause to listen for voices. Hands down, push up. Walk down the hallway. Take a right. Feel for the doorknob. Pull back on it before you rotate or it will squeak. Apply pressure upwards on the door or else it will squeak too, then swing open.

The common room was never completely dark. They had these secondary low-watt LEDs that blasted through the night. It always reminded King Henry of back home during the spring and autumn, of opening his window all the way and watching the stars by moonlight. The LEDs colored the common room in the same dark blue hue.

A world of outlines.

Just like that outline in Mom’s chest.

King Henry closed his eyes, just standing there for a second.

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