Monsters of Blood and Honour by Ken Catran

Author:Ken Catran [Ken Catran]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781775530749
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand
Published: 2012-05-21T16:00:00+00:00

I have to put this book down, Sarah thought. But I have to go on reading. This is nothing I have had to deal with, I am totally outside my comfort zone. No, those modern clichés were like hammering on a closed door — because her modern mind was far from Great-Aunt Jooney sleeping upstairs. The house was dark, her darker thoughts were very cold — she had never known darkness could be so cold — or that her colder thoughts could hold so much pain and distress.

She could put it down. She could go upstairs and sit beside her sleeping Great-Aunt. She could empathise with all that searing trauma and when Great-Aunt woke, kiss her on that wrinkled cheek and say it would be all right. But it would not be, because a nursing home lay ahead and — without knowing why — she was responsible for that too.

I am not responsible, thought Sarah, but I am. I do not understand my splitting thoughts, but must read on and follow Jooney into the trauma and darkness. Because the worst is yet to come and I cannot handle it. But I must, Sarah thought, this chair and this sleeping house will hold me until I do.

So she would sit here and tell her hands to open another page, tell her eyes to read what was written. And let her brain, her awareness, somehow take this in and make judgement.

Jooney’s story was still before her. It would open darker nightmares. Onward, she thought; Great-Aunt suffered this, so I must.

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