Action Figures - Issue Eight: Crawling From the Wreckage by Michael C Bailey

Author:Michael C Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Innsmouth Look Publishing
Published: 2019-04-09T07:00:00+00:00

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I call Dennis to arrange a face-to-face. I am not going to lay this on him over the phone or online. All I tell him is that I learned something important, that it involves him, and I want to tell him about it personally. He’s understandably wary, but he doesn’t press for details.

The evening preceding our meeting is suitably uncomfortable. I head downstairs and sit down to dinner with Mom. Sara has a show tonight, but I put her acting chops to shame pretending I got some restful sleep. And that I’m not the least bit bothered by my mother’s new lifestyle. And that I’m perfectly fine keeping Sara and Meg’s dirty little secret after we finally got to a place in our relationship where I don’t have to lie to Mom anymore.

Yep. Totally cool with all of it.

After dinner, I head back upstairs, fully intending to get a for-real good night’s rest. I still can’t bring myself to take the sleeping pills but figure I don’t need to. Exhaustion is kicking in hard, and I expect natural processes to take their course.

Except they don’t. I toss and turn, trying so desperately to get comfortable, but my pillow is a cinder block, the mattress a morgue slab.

Screw this. Screw this.

I jump out of bed, get dressed, throw on my headset, and sneak out of the house. I run over to my old launchpad in the woods near my house so Mom and Sara won’t see me take off, and once I’ve escaped the Earth’s atmosphere, I warp out.

Better roll out the welcome mat, Kyros Prime, because Fargirl Hauser is coming to visit.

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