Love Songs from a Shallow Grave by Colin Cotterill

Author:Colin Cotterill [Cotterill, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Siri read until one a.m. The second Soviet strip light, newly installed in the second-floor library, had illuminated his book with such enthusiasm that he could see the flecks of wood fibre in the paper. His mind could have stayed up all night but his body craved sleep. He apologised to Monsieur Sartre and went to bed. For once, Madame Daeng didn’t stir when he joined her and, as soon as the ghost of his missing left earlobe hit the pillow, he was thrown into that nightmare. The same boy, wearing Siri’s talisman around his neck. The same moment of indecision. Would he laugh and walk away or would he pull the trigger? The moment dragged through time, allowing the panic to take hold. Will he blow off the doctor’s head tonight, or not? The finger twitches, then relaxes. The boy smiles and walks on. A sigh. Head on night. And in the distance he hears the voice. The melodic voice of love and promise. A sound so enchanting Siri is drawn to it like a night moth to the bright fire trail of a jet engine. No good can come of it. He reaches into his own dream and grabs for his stupid music-following self. “Don’t do it,” he calls, and he finds himself just in time and throws his arms around himself and drags himself out of his nightmare.

And his pillow was wet with sweat because he knew that if he were to ever find the singer, all hope for mankind would be lost.

“Bad dream again?” Daeng asked.

“Something bad is going to happen,” he told her.

She brushed back his hair and said, “It’s only a dream.”

But it wasn’t.

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