The Walls of the Castle by Dark Regions Press

Author:Dark Regions Press
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: psychological, dark fiction, tom piccirilli, dark regions digital, dark regions press, drp digital, black labyrinth, santiago caruso

He first heard of Abaddon a couple of weeks later from an old woman with a bad brain.

Her name was Merilee Himes, eighty-two years old, skin dark and wrinkled as a prune, with freckles like a spray of pepper shot burned across her cheeks. She was remarkably healthy for her age. Walked to church six miles from her home twice a week. Occasionally walked to the VFW to play Bingo. Had an active social life with many friends spread out across the city as well as a gentleman caller. They picnicked in the park, went dancing, visited museums, and sojourned to four separate cemeteries to visit their deceased spouses. They’d each buried two.

Maybe it was inevitable that some piss-poor driver would come along, on their cell or distracted with the kids or just fumbling around the satellite radio for the perfect song.

Turned out to be a seventeen-year-old girl with a fresh license, texting with her boyfriend. She crossed over onto the shoulder while typing out 2 BLOX AWY, SEE U SOON and ran into Merilee Himes, launching her twenty feet into the air and knocking her into oncoming traffic.

The girl proceeded to text HLY FUK, MY DADS GONNA KLL ME!!!!! even as three more cars proceeded to run over Merilee. All told she lost her left arm, both legs below the knee, her spleen, her right orbital socket, several large pieces of her skull, and about a quarter of her brain.

It was all right there in the police report stapled to the inside back jacket of the chart.

It was either a miracle or a very bad joke that Merilee Himes was still alive. Kasteel went back and forth on which he thought it might be.

Merilee Himes had five children and sixteen grandchildren and forty-three great-great grandchildren. They visited regularly in great big groups although only two visitors were allowed in the ICU patients’ rooms at any given time. They left balloons, plants, cards, children’s paintings, candy, and plastic containers of food, all of which were strictly prohibited within the confines of ICU. The nurses collected all the gifts and promised to keep these things safe for Merilee until she awoke. Most of it was thrown away immediately, except for the candy, which was spread out among the staff. The doctors and nurses would flirt, share a piece of chocolate, sometimes make out a little or just go fuck in a maintenance closet or a free room somewhere.

Kasteel ate the food brought by Merilee’s family when he could get his hands on it. They had a leaning towards the southern spicy, lots of red peppers, mustard seeds, sausages, ribs, jambalaya, gumbo. The nurses would bring it around to their station and leave it on the counter until the janitor came around to take the food, flowers, cards, and everything else away in their garbage pails. Kasteel would get there first when the nurses weren’t around, collect the goods, and go share them with Hedgwick and others.

He’d ripped off a razor and shaving cream and had picked up clippers from brain surgery to trim his hair.

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