The Misunderstood and Other Misfit Horrors by Jason Brannon

Author:Jason Brannon
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2011-08-04T04:30:00+00:00

Sometimes at night as he lay there crying and hoping his wife would come back to him, he imagined that he could hear the soft sound of weeping. The thing that disturbed him the most was that he knew his imagination had nothing to do with it.

The Oracles

The crying babies sounded like police sirens. Brian wasn’t sure how anybody could get used to that sort of noise. It was bad enough that Denise had dragged him to the hospital for the birth of her new nephew. Yet bad was quickly turning to worse as she began to foster ideas of becoming pregnant and having a baby of her own.

“Do you ever think about names for our future children?” Denise asked as they stood outside the nursery waiting for a chance to view her new nephew. “I like the name Skylar for a girl. Or Wyatt for a boy. What do you think about those?”

“They’re both fine,” Brian grumbled.

“Do you have any names you like better?”

“I said those are fine.”

“You obviously don’t want to talk about this,” Denise said in short, clipped tones.

“You’re right,” Brian agreed. “I don’t want to name children that we don’t even have yet.”

Denise looked at her husband and took a few steps away. “Maybe this wasn’t such a good idea to come here in the first place. You said you didn’t want to come, and I pushed the issue. I just thought it might warm you to the idea of having kids one day if you saw how precious they were, all fragile and vulnerable and innocent.”

Brian sighed. Here it comes, he thought.

Tears welled up at the corners of Denise’s eyes. “I support you in everything you do. I don’t question the odd hours you work. I don’t ask you to help much around the house. I try to be a good wife. All I want in return is a family. Is that too much to ask?”

Brian didn’t want to make a scene right here in the middle of the hospital so he spoke in a whisper. “I’m not opposed to the idea of having children. I just feel like the timing is bad right now. Work is hectic. We’re fighting all the time. Money’s tight. Besides, you’ve only seriously started mentioning the idea since Brooke went into the hospital a few days ago.”

He saw the change in Denise’s features and knew that a thunderstorm was brewing behind her eyes. “You think that the only reason I want a baby is because my brother and his wife have one? This is not my way of keeping up with the Joneses.”

Without another word, Denise stormed down the hospital corridor toward the exit. Brian dutifully followed behind her, knowing he was in for a fight the minute they got to the car. But Denise didn’t say a word to him.

She glared at him from the passenger seat, and he did his best not to look back at her. He knew that she was going to start screaming at him soon so he took a right turn at the stop light instead of a left.

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