Somewhere Far Below: A gripping, fast paced mystery thriller novel by Anna Felka

Author:Anna Felka [Felka, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

Back at home, Dan sits in his room. He’s working on his story; he’s so close to finishing it. He pauses to look out the little window; there are dark clouds rolling in, and he might get lucky with a storm.

He continues to scratch words on the paper. It feels good to make a mark in the world even if the mark is only graphite and dead trees. It still has to count for something, right? It makes him feel like he has control over something, his own little world to play puppet master with. Somewhere no one can tell him what to do.

Footsteps.

Dan looks out the window again. It’s not raining yet. He rushes to his closet, stuffing his story in his secret box as fast as he can, crumpling the pages. He scurries to his bed and shoves his comics under his mattress. He never knows when or what his dad will choose to be mad at him for, but no matter how he prepared he tries to be, he always finds something wrong.

The footsteps stop on the landing outside his door before it’s thrown open.

“What are you doing in here?” Dan’s dad slurs.

“Nothing.” Dan sits on his hands.

“Well, there are dishes in the sink that haven’t been washed. Why not?”

“Sorry. I’ll do them right now.” Dan stands to walk past his dad, but he doesn’t move.

“Should’ve been done when you got home, especially if you got nothing to do.”

“I said I’m sorry.”

“Sorry doesn’t count for shit.”

Dan closes his eyes, waiting for the blow to his arm or ribs. It doesn’t come. Instead, pain surges across his shin. He gasps, sucking in air as he bends, holding his injured leg. Before his hands make it to where it hurts, his dad kicks him again, in the exact same spot. This time the pain is excruciating, forcing Dan to fall to the ground; he makes a little squeaking sound as he meets the floor.

Hearing that squeak sets something—some dark monster—loose in his dad’s mind that can’t be laid to rest until it runs its course. He looks disgusted with Dan, and he kicks him again and again in the stomach, ribs, everywhere but his face. Dan wants to think it’s only the alcohol that makes him like this, that he isn’t really himself and has no ability to discern right from wrong. But that theory is flawed. If it isn’t, then why does he leave his face untouched? He has to at least be conscious enough to remember that. Dan almost wishes he would hit him in the face just once so Dan can believe there is some good in him, and that if only he can get that beast—that monster—out of his body, he might meet his real father for the first time. He doesn’t want to believe this is him. If he can’t believe there is something good in his dad, then what did that say about his mom? Why did she have a child with a

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