Emma and the Minotaur by Jon Herrera

Author:Jon Herrera
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Published: 2013-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Rebecca Robins was running.

She had left her house at precisely eight o’clock as was her routine. It was a stringent one that she rarely deviated from. Her weekdays were spent always in the same manner: she stayed after work at Briardale Middle School to do marking and lesson preparation until five o’clock; she arrived home at five thirty and made dinner, which she ate at six o’clock at her dinner table; at six thirty, she went to her living room with a cup of tea and read a novel until seven forty-five, when she changed into her running clothes. Rebecca ran for an hour every night.

There was a jogging trail that snaked through an old quarry near Rebecca’s house. For years, she had run that trail to the point that she could probably do it with her eyes closed. She was not one to deviate from routine, but tonight she was running along a dimly lit street near the woods. Rebecca wasn’t sure where she was or how she had ended up there.

Something had been nagging at the back of her mind since she’d arrived home that afternoon. She had felt as though she had forgotten something important and it was pulling at her from somewhere, but she couldn’t remember what it was no matter how hard she tried. Something told her that it might have to do with the girl Emma and her awful behaviour. She considered the little girl to be a monster, hell-bent on causing chaos in her class. Today, she had given the girl a third strike and sent her down to the principal’s office.

A cool drop of water fell on the back of her neck and she stopped and looked up in fear that it had started to rain again. Above her head there were branches that protruded from the woods. The wind had caused some of the rainwater to fall down just as she’d passed underneath.

Somehow, looking up into the leaves made her remember why she’d gone off course. It had been a sweet kind of music that she had heard, faint but enchanting. It had felt as though it had been calling to her.

Just as she thought about the music, it began to play again from somewhere inside the darkness of the forest. She had no choice but to follow it.

Rebecca didn’t know how long she followed the music. It was a wet journey because the forest was still moist from the rain. She hardly noticed. The music was sweet and lovely and it made Rebecca happy. It filled her senses and it was all that she cared to notice. There were booms of thunder and what sounded like giant footfalls, but they were to Rebecca like irrelevant background noise to the beautiful symphony.

Even as she came within sight of the clearing, she was not taken aback by the violence within. There were three men there and a monster. There was screaming and crying out and struggling. The monster crushed the arm of one of the men at the elbow with a squeeze of its great hand.

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