The Visitors by Simon Sylvester

Author:Simon Sylvester [Sylvester, Simon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-61219-464-6
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2015-12-29T05:00:00+00:00

It wasn’t possible. He’d be in a bar somewhere, playing cards, or singing songs and telling tall tales and complaining about the beer … Except he’d missed the football. And his house had been smashed up. As though there’d been a fight. Traces of blood. Uncle Anders.

I turned from the window. On the desk, all my selkie research sat beside my laptop in a ruffled stack of books and paper. The Mutch book sat on top. The cover stared at me. I picked it up, balancing the spine, and let the book fall open at random. It turned to the full-page illustration of the evil selkie woman. The sealskin dropped from her hips. Her back was too thin, the spine angled, the ribs askew and waist too narrow. Lip curled, she stared back at me, full of spite and hate.

I did it, she hissed.

It was me, and I’m glad.

Slowly, carefully, I put the book down, cover flat to the desk. I tried to read a detective paperback, but couldn’t shake my mood. All I could see was the map of the islands on John Dobie’s bedroom wall. A red pin stuck into the northern coast of Bancree. Uncle Anders, our Anders. The sky seemed so much lower. The sea seemed so much deeper, so much darker. I chucked the book onto the floor and tried to sleep. When I dreamed, it was the selkie again. Mad things struggled in her furs. The coat wrapped itself to her, clinging and binding. No matter how I tossed and turned, the shapes were always sliding. Nothing stayed the same. As a backdrop to my dream, vast dark eyes filled the sky.

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