The Storm King: A Novel by Brendan Duffy

Author:Brendan Duffy [Brendan Duffy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0804178143
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Nate had once told Tom that he felt safest when the world quaked in a tempest, because that was when the true face of things was revealed. That’s where all illusions of munificence faded away, and the stone heart of the universe was laid bare.

This was the transformation Tom witnessed in Nate. As he whirled and pivoted and punched, his friend shed before him any guise of boyhood he’d clung to. Beneath these things Nate had pretended to be, he was not just a storm, he was an apocalypse.

A kick to the ribs. An elbow to the sternum. Nate broke Adam against the muddy ground and took him apart piece by piece.

The Creature of Catastrophic Futures forgot himself and released the scream he held inside him. It wasn’t a cry of horror but a flare thrown into the burning night, because even he found beauty in this violence.

Finally, every last rule and regret and obligation was stripped away under the raw truth of blood and dirt and storm. Here was something magnificent to feed that atavistic place that hungered for righteous carnage.

When Tom and the others in the glade shouted into the storm they howled the screams of the free.

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