Red Spikes by Margo Lanagan

Author:Margo Lanagan [Margo Lanagan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781741156164
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty Ltd
Published: 2006-09-30T14:00:00+00:00

‘Psst! Anderson!’ said the coat-rack.

‘What?’ Diammid stared. ‘Who’s that?’

A coat kicked out with a thin bruised leg, and now he saw the eye in the shadows. ‘Rickets?’

The boy hung there like a hunchback by the collar of his blazer. ‘Can you get me down, Anderson?’

‘Yes, but they’ll—But I’ll—Is it Bully has done this, or Teasdale?’

‘Just for a piss, Anderson, and then you can hang me up again. Please. I’m busting. It won’t take a minute.’

‘Oh, all right.’ And he lifted the boy down and waited there nervously. It took more than a minute, but eventually Rickets came hurrying into sight. ‘Quickly! I can hear them coming back from Gym!’

And it was accomplished.

‘Thanks, Anderson.’ Rickets pulled the coats around himself. ‘I owe you. Go away, now – you’d best not be found here.’

Diammid went, trying to shake off the scrape of Rickets’ boot against his shin, the imprint of his bony hip as he lifted him down, the pale face with the watery greenish eyes, the smell of drains about the boy.

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