The Cold Inside (Horror Short Stories) by Saunders Craig

Author:Saunders, Craig
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Fable Books
Published: 2016-05-01T04:00:00+00:00

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Alice woke with a sense that the world was moving all around her. She flicked the switch above the headboard of her bed to find that the light did not work, and the constant light of the city distant. Normally, the light, even here on the twentieth floor, was intrusive. Now it felt unutterably dark. And there was movement. The kind of movement a tall building gets when the wind blows very, very hard.

Gentle, but there, definitely. And the sound of it, whistling and calling her at the window, cheap and mildewed, damp in the summer and cold in the winter. The wind called her out.

She stepped into her slippers and pulled her dressing gown on, cinching the belt tight around her narrow waist, and stepped out of her flat to see if she could see the wind.

She couldn't. She could feel it, bruising and brutal, a rough lover with calloused fingers and long, dirty nails.

She did, however, see the chestnut go down as the street lights below flickered on and off. She saw it fall, not dead, not yet, but broken in half low down, like it had long been rotten and the wind had done little more than pushed an old man down the stairs.

She didn't hear the crack or tear of the great tree from up on high and through the wind's calculating laugh sliding through the safety barrier between her and the tree she loved.

Alice looked at the tree, resting, dying, atop someone's cheap, ugly car.

And she knew she wanted it. Wanted to carve that heart into something the tree would want to be.

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