Sharp Scratch by Martine Bailey

Author:Martine Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allison and Busby
Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Bubble after bubble of hysterical giggles surfaced and popped in her throat. Whatever Rikki had given her, it was like nothing she’d ever had before.

‘Pretty trippy,’ she said.

Diaz nodded with a spaced-out smile. Hearing Gothenburg starting up, he took her arm and she followed, oblivious to her earlier worries about the others seeing them together. Squeezing into the mass of fans, she gasped as the exertion triggered another wave of the chemical. The edges of the room had started to loom and recede; the floor was trembling like a living heart. A moment later the soar of fluidly melodic bass and the crack of drums charged her heart with explosives. Ben Rowlands reached for the mic and the room hushed. That night he sang like a voice from the other side of an abyss, communicating pain and a dreadful understanding. The first number ended and there was a pause for cheers and whoops of acclamation.

The singer stood alone, silhouetted in the white stage lights, the smoke of a cigarette twisting to the ceiling. As one of Zeb’s surging riffs from ‘The Dead Letter House’ shook the air, the new guitarist worked up to a crescendo, eyes closed, seeming to channel Zeb, their dead hero. She closed her eyes and sank into visions of prophets and haunted eyes. All the while the music spoke to her: Zeb was a martyr with terrible knowledge that spoke through his music, telling of what lay across the gulf, on the other side, in the void.

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