Sour Candy: A Novella by Kealan Patrick Burke

Author:Kealan Patrick Burke
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Horror, Short Stories (Single Author), Fiction, Psychological, Thrillers, Occult & Supernatural
ISBN: 9781519915214
Publisher: Kealan Patrick Burke
Published: 2015-11-13T06:00:00+00:00

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All he will ever retain from however long he spends in that other place—and surely it’s an eternity—will be fragments of horrors, so garish and alien it is impossible for his mind to put them together into any kind of sense or order, but they will be enough to compound the seriousness of the situation in which he has found himself.

He will recall with no transition at all the kitchen table turning to a slab of ancient granite upon which a multitude of symbols have been chiseled with great care. Above it, instead of his kitchen ceiling, he sees a deep crimson sky threaded with black veins, as if this world exists within the belly of some colossal monster and what he is seeing is its flesh lit from without by some alien sun. But there are birds up there too, crooked, angular things like broken kites with bladed edges.

On the horizon, pulsing in the red light, enormous figures move, warring, tentacle limbs tangling, the blazing blue lights of their eyes like falling stars. He will hear them shriek as they die.

And he will know that this world is forever dying and being reborn again, just as he is certain that no one like him was ever supposed to see it. This is a forbidden place, and yet he is here.

And then he’ll draw his focus in closer, to the figures, what he will think of as Eldre or Elders without ever knowing how he knows that’s what they are. The word is just there, as are they, standing around the granite table watching him, their faces the elongated skulls of ancient deer, their horns impossibly long and tangled, twisting upward into apparent oblivion. These are not masks. The holes where there eyes should be will reveal nothing, but he senses the age and the eldritch threat, as all six of them open their bony mouths at once and deafen him with the same scream he heard from the child, only louder. The sound costs him part of his mind. It’s the cost of being allowed to see as the symbols catch fire and blind him.

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