Darkness Falls (Delirium Novella Series) by Leverone Allan

Author:Leverone, Allan [Leverone, Allan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Delirium Books
Published: 2011-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

8

A slash of brightness slanted like a knife-blade into the darkness of the master bedroom. Tyler had left the light on in the bathroom in the event Deb needed to get up while he was sleeping. She hadn’t seemed creeped out about spending the night in Rufus Stowe’s old home, but he knew things could seem much different in the inky blackness of an unfamiliar house at three AM. He’d been there.

Beside him, Debra snored softly, sleeping on her left side in the fetal position, her bare ass just touching his hip. The sex had been frenzied; almost animalistic, and he smiled as he thought how right the Twilight’s owner/bartender had been when he called them a couple of sex-starved teenagers.

But now, while he knew he should be exhausted after no more than a couple hours of fitful sleep in the chair at his computer last night, followed by a day of writing and a night of drinking and sex, Tyler felt completely the opposite. He was reinvigorated; feeling energetic rather than tired. And he could sense his manuscript calling out to him, the siren song of fiction drawing him in like it had done in the old days, when he was capable—hell, more than capable; compelled, really—of composing thousands of words in a single day.

He pushed the covers aside and slid out of bed. Debra stretched, mumbling something softly that Tyler could not make out, and he waited to see if she had awoken but she remained asleep. He padded silently out of the bedroom and down the hallway to his office. His early years as a writer had been like this, too. Rising from a deep sleep at all hours, gripped by the compulsion to write, certain that if he did not continue the momentum he had established he would lose it.

And it had worked, better than he had ever dreamed. From that crappy one-room basement efficiency apartment in Manhattan, Tyler pounded out his first manuscript in just a few months, cleaned it up, polished it and began searching for an agent, aware of the long odds he faced but undeterred by them. All he had ever wanted to do was write and he was doing it; so it didn’t even occur to him that he might not beat those odds.

He smiled now, sitting in the gloom at his laptop. That stupid kid had had no idea how lucky he was, nor had he a clue how easily things could veer off-track. When you’re barely into your twenties, things that become plainly evident later on seem shrouded in mystery. Things like misplaced priorities, lack of self-control, and the harsh realities of a life lived in the glare of the celebrity spotlight.

Tyler felt the familiar pang of regret wash over him. Then he bent down and began tapping the keys on his laptop. Within minutes he was gone, lost in his fictional world of horror.

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