Blood Makes Noise by Widen Gregory

Author:Widen, Gregory [Widen, Gregory]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2013-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

They had dinner/breakfast at the mom-and-pop steak joint—Rosa’s treat—and the food sat foully in his belly, but he felt okay and tried to make it good for Rosa. The evening had a shot, but then they went by her bar for a nightcap, and there was noise and other shithead miners and suddenly she was his girl now and his mood imploded, leaving him hunched in the restroom jamming pills down his throat, seeking the middle distance.

She had a cake waiting for him at the trailer, but he couldn’t even count the candles on it, which weren’t forty-four anyway. They ate it, sat there rummaging the wreckage of another night, and fell asleep.

When he woke there was thunder ugly and deep over Tonopah. He disentangled himself from Rosa, pulled on his jeans, and walked out barefoot amongst luminescent gravel. The wind had lost its arrogance and was in full retreat from a thunderhead coming over the mountains, swallowing the sky, black on blacker.

And Michael began to run.

Out of town, across beaten, weedy lots. Through fissured sandstone, into the path of the storm. Thunder throbbed his frame, and it began to rain. He couldn’t hear his breath, but when it failed he collapsed to his knees, shot his face up into a sky roiling spun lead above him, and thought, Oh God, oh God, what have I become…

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