I'll Pray When I'm Dying by Stephen J. Golds

Author:Stephen J. Golds [Golds, Stephen J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781914480270
Publisher: Red Dog Press

The boy’s eyes snapped open. Wide. His bedroom cold. Freezing. Goosebumps speckling his pale skin. Toys on a shelf with eyes that glistened in the moonlight. Model airplanes twisted on string like dead men hanging from the ceiling. His blanket had fallen from his bed. Or had it been dragged from him? He lay naked, staring at the purple darkness spread thinly over the ceiling too afraid to bring his gaze down to the foot of the bed. Knowing by the atmosphere of the room that the Beetle Man was there again. Had come for him. In the doorway.

Floorboards creaked. The priest at Sunday School told him the noises he heard were the house’s foundations relaxing after a day of constant activity. Ben knew different. Staring at the blank ceiling of the small room, breath leaving his mouth and nostrils in tendrils of icy smoke. Listening to the sounds that edged their way through the silence. Closer. There, moving twisted through the dim. Close. The sound of fabric against fabric. Skin against skin. Another creaking of floorboards. The dragging of feet sliding softly, delicately over the carpet of his bedroom floor. He felt it then. The heavy, magnetic atmosphere of being watched. Observed. He couldn’t move. Frozen in place. The dragging of feet moving closer to his bedside. Closer. The wet sound of something breathing. Staring at the ceiling. Too frightened. Too cowardly to look at the thing looming there, leering down at him with eyes that glistened like black glass. Something brushed against his leg. Trickled. His bowels unclamped. The stench of shit and sickness filling the room

His eyes screamed. His mouth screamed. He screamed into an abyss. He screamed the word ‘mother’.

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