The Book of Days by Steve Rasnic Tem

Author:Steve Rasnic Tem [Tem, Steve Rasnic]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

NOV. 28

1922: the first public skywriting exhibition occurs over New York’s Times Square.

1929: navy commander Richard E. Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole.

As he lay there bleeding to death Cal would gaze up at the white sky and think at first that he was staring at the snow banks he was lying on. Cold would creep through his skin and he would feel himself spinning crazily like a needle on a malfunctioning compass.

In the snow banks high above, birds would arrange and rearrange themselves in various complicated flight patterns. He would try for hours to read their secret messages for him as he bled to death, but no understanding would come.

No explanations were necessary. There was cold, and there was the blood seeping out of the body into the cold, and leaving cold behind.

And he would think about how cold his son had become, and yet how warm his little boy had once been, before Cal had left.

And the birds above would endlessly circle, spelling 0.

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