The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero

Author:Edgar Cantero [Cantero, Edgar]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-385-53816-9
Publisher: Random House Inc.
Published: 2014-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

A.: [Curious.] Did you feel that?

TELEGRAM

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From: Niamh Connell

Point Bless, Ponopah, VA

NEED HELP NOW STOP LAST NIGHT WAS HORRIBLE STOP I AM LOSING HIM STOP FIND A SOLUTION PLEASE!

DREAM JOURNAL

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I’m beyond return. I know this. I can barely see this page; red stains ebb into my field of view, chasing my writing, closing on the word I’m penning. But I close my eyes and I can see the exact shape of the golden Arab letters on the spine of the book the reader is holding before his brown hand loses its grip and the volume drops onto the carpet as his head gently tilts toward the arched window whence the watery music comes. I can’t read Niamh’s lips anymore, but the moment I lie down I see the woman in lingerie at the wheel, shining a soul-melting smile at me after I solve the Rubik’s cube, and I pride myself on such a goddess showing pride in me. I can’t feel Niamh’s warmth anymore, but I feel the redhead’s breath under the blanket gently drying my ice-cold limbs, her hair caressing me to sleep. And I sleep more than I’m awake. I belong more to her than I belong here. Soon Niamh and Axton House will cease to exist, and there will be the Puma shoes falling toward the speck of sand in the ocean, the snowing cities, the poppy field. I’ll be no longer myself. I’ll be the hobo in the park, the surfer in the tempest, the dying reader, the piano student, the tomboy in the redhead’s bed. I’ll be the skeleton playing poker. I’ll be the monster holding the pitchfork.

And the sad truth is, I want to be all those people. I’d sooner die forked a thousand times in that house than wake up to a world without monsters or goddesses. I’d rather play the monster myself.

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