My Uncle's New Eyes by Hirsch Joseph

Author:Hirsch, Joseph
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Published: 2020-07-15T16:00:00+00:00

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The sound the coyotes made that night was more complaint than lament, like they were baying about having bad backs but I just didn’t quite have ears to hear them. A barking dog on a nearby homestead picked up the call, and it became a constant bark that didn’t sound like it was ending soon.

I stood up from my bed, walked over to the window, looked outside. I hoped to spot one coyote but knew I wouldn’t. They had mastered the shadows after long ago learning they were weaker than almost every other animal out here and would only survive by slinking and behaving like beasts a mere step up the evolutionary chain from rats, and maybe a rung or two below turkey buzzards.

A jaundiced eye of a moon hung in the far corner of the black sky. It threw down a lot of light, but it was a rancid-butter yellow that made me wish for some clouds or, barring that, a waning rather than waxing moon. I saw no Chupacabra stalking the naked desert, but maybe the goatsuckers moved too fast or kept to the shadows as the coyotes did; maybe the prairie dogs suckled at the cryptids’ teats like Grendel at his mother’s.

The front door to Luna’s place opened. Her robed form stood shrouded in darkness until she shuffled into the light of the moon. The light that had been ugly and yellow a moment before was now a sainted orangish candle glow, first tinctured and then transformed by her arrival.

She shed her bathrobe on a patio chair and stood in a dove-white one-piece swimsuit that hugged the pendulous curves of her body. Gravity got us all eventually, but its work on her was a thing of beauty, giving her heart-shaped breasts and thighs a bountiful weight that meant every step sent a small aftershock through her body, which became a tremor in my body as her rippling movements reached my eye.

I knew I shouldn’t be looking, that this was her time for herself, an unwinding after a night of babysitting my uncle as he watched fights. Nightmares of island-hopping the archipelagos around Betio would also probably be waking him in a couple of hours, and she would have to sit bedside and calm him through his terrors.

She didn’t deserve to endure this, to have me looking at her in the dark, but the blood was pounding in my temples and in the rest of my body, and as long as it was dark and she didn’t see me I didn’t see any way to escape the hold of what had come over me.

I had done so well until this point, too, but that was the story of every addict and every sinner, and part of what made falling back into the trap so sweet. I’d engaged in a gentleman’s agreement with a couple guys in the dorm back at Redrock and managed to not masturbate for two whole weeks, but there had been no beautiful women at school.

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