Seven Crow Stories by Robert J. Wiersema

Author:Robert J. Wiersema
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ChiZine
Published: 2016-10-23T21:40:26+00:00

He closed the guest room door behind Tessa and stood for a moment just listening to the sound of his own breath, savouring the feeling of being alone for once, finally.

It didn’t take him long to dress—he didn’t have much in the way of clothes, and he had pretty much lived in jeans and a black t-shirt anyway. Before.

He sat on the bed to pull up his socks, to tie his Docs. As he ran the laces through the top couple of eyelets, he could feel the slow burning start within him, the cool, stony feeling of inevitability that would build and build until he gave it release.

He smiled.

It wasn’t always like this. Sometimes the anger came too fast, too surprisingly, and he had no chance of controlling it. That’s what had got him into trouble: those flashes of anger, the sudden bursts of fury that left him blind, almost devoid of memory of what he had done.

That’s why he had spent all those years away.

But this, this feeling of cold fire in his belly, this was almost comforting, a familiar friend he knew he could count on. A feeling that had never let him down.

Standing up, he looked at himself in the mirror. Not at his face, not checking his shave or his hair, but meeting his own eyes in the cold glass, recognizing himself there. Centering himself. Steeling himself.

He tugged on his leather jacket, made sure his wallet and cigarettes were in the pockets, then nodded at his own reflection.

Before he left, he took one last look around the room that had once been his home. There were no details there to consign to memory, nothing to take with him, even knowing he wouldn’t be back.

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