Arrie and the Wolf Part 2 by Eileen Glass

Author:Eileen Glass [Glass, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 25165510
Publisher: Glass Fiction
Published: 2015-03-21T00:00:00+00:00

Too much saliva in my mouth, like I’m going to puke, and the back of my throat is rough and aching. Copper tang permeates the air, and I can’t get the taste out of my mouth. My legs have gone numb from sitting on them too long. My fingers too, from trying to break the iron bars of my prison. The thin rods trapping me are indifferent to my efforts.

Nuts and bolts rattle in a drawer someplace. The sound is awful, I just want it to stop, why won’t it stop?

On the wall, a shadow of a mad scientist dressed in goggles and a lab coat grins over an experiment, tongue waggling visibly as he—she—chants continuously during the surgery. The show is disturbing, the cause of these awful sensations, but I can’t stop watching.

Shadow scissors clack like lobster claws while the scientist draws something stringy and gooey from the rattling thing in the chair.

Not a living thing, my dream-self assures. A machine of some kind. She’s pulling out the wires.

Snip, snip, and she puts the part in a jar.

I’m dreaming, I realize, but I don’t wake up, even as the rattling gets louder. The terrible jangling noise mixes with the clink of Edith sorting her keys, and I can’t think.

Arrie, wake up, it’s eating me alive, help me…

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