The Tent: A Novella by Burke Kealan Patrick

Author:Burke, Kealan Patrick [Burke, Kealan Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-04-20T00:00:00+00:00

The fall seems to last for an eternity, the abyss endless and impenetrably dark. As the air whistles past his ears, he hears first the walking stick, then his phone, splash against the bottom, and is absurdly relieved to know there is one. That there’s water suggests he might survive the fall. The odds are not good that he won’t simply shatter himself against the rocks, but any odds are better than none.

He is no longer afraid, no longer anything but an empty vessel with one word left on his lips: Sorry.

The word is meant for Emma, for Cody, for himself, until he has the opportunity to tell them face to face in whatever follows oblivion, assuming anything does.

The promise of it gives him a smile.

Sixty feet down, a tall thin stalagmite abruptly halts his descent, punching through his stomach, shattering his lower vertebrae, and suspending him there in the dark like a fly on a needle. The pain feels like something bestowed upon someone else. He is already dying, finally ready to exit a world that was Not His Department.

Soon, his beloved mother comes and mercifully mutes the world for her little boy, one last time.

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