Minions of the Moon by Richard Bowes

Author:Richard Bowes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, gay, alcoholism, addiction, dark fantasy, boston, new york, doppelganger
Publisher: Lethe Press

Mr. Dunn was seeing me three times a week at that point. The next evening I went up to his place right from my research job. I’d had trouble sleeping the night before. That day summer heat arrived in New York. Leo Dunn met me in front of his building wearing a suit of pinkish tan and we walked over to Madison Avenue. A cop in his car said, “Hey, Leo!” The setting sun turned city browns and grays to bronze and peach.

“I’m just no damn good,” I said.

“My friend, no one tells me that about a client of mine. Not even the client. As I’ve told you before, you are the best person in the world, the bravest, the smartest.” Mr. Dunn reached into his coat for a cigarette, paused, patted his pockets a bit like an old actor, and walked into a place that smelled like a humidor.

“Leo! Good to see you about!” said an elderly pixie of a tobacconist behind the counter reaching for a pack of Marlboro’s. “You’re looking well.”

“Pat, how are you!” Mr. Dunn patted his pockets again and the man put it on the tab. Mr. Dunn’s silver lighter seemed to appear in his hand by magic. “What brought on this sudden blindness to all your good points?” he asked as we stepped onto the street.

“A guy named Carl that I haven’t seen in a few years. We lived together. This isn’t easy to explain.” I’d never discussed my sex life with him. Or anybody else, really. Even Boris and Sarah only got bits and pieces of it. But he just nodded and we walked down the avenue.

“He was a kid I picked up when I was really crazed. I let him stay in my place. Look.” I turned to face Dunn. “Sex was this stuff adults showed me when I was a kid. I never felt like I had much of a say. But a lot of it hurt me badly. So…”

“You used sometimes to hurt others.” I nodded and wondered what it would have been like to have been able to talk to Mr. Dunn when I was a kid. That may have been all I wanted, someone to talk to.

“At first, I didn’t even let him have keys. When I left for work, I’d give him a dollar and put him out on the street. Later on, my Silent Partner…” I saw Mr. Dunn shake his head. “No, I take responsibility, okay? It was my fault he got told stupid things.” I took a deep breath and went on to tell Mr. Dunn about the white room and my previous night.

We walked a little further downtown before he spoke. “Even the cleverest of us can get caught in twisted logic,” he said. “Especially when they have a Silent Partner ready to give them bad advice.” Leo Dunn had a wide variety of roles, priest, fellow sinner, salesman. That evening, he was a wily old lawyer with a tough case.

“You say someone

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