Sugar Town by Robert Nicholls

Author:Robert Nicholls
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Published: 2023-05-25T01:52:30+00:00

If you could take all the little bits of annoyance and anger and frustration and sadness and regret that pop up in various parts of your life and put them into a big funnel so they come out in a concentrated, focused little stream of poison, you’d know what was happening to me as I rode Dale Sutton out into the yard. All the answers that I couldn’t get, all the blank faces that were turned to me, all the stupidity that I saw in myself and the helplessness that I saw in Bridie and the incomprehension in Asael; all the resentment of being abandoned by people who should have loved me – I was taking it all out on Dale. In the moment, I had no sense of what was happening. I didn’t feel him get his fingers into my hair and I didn’t feel myself fly through the air, over his shoulder.

It wasn’t until I slammed into the earth on my back, hurled from a great height, it seemed, that the rage oofed out of me. As did my ability to breathe. No air in, no air out. Ears ringing, eyes closed, lungs simply lounging in my chest, taking a break. And I thought, ‘Okay. I’m dead. That’s an end to it!’ And then I thought, ‘What stories? What stories has Darryl been hearing about me?’

I lay there for long seconds wondering about that. Then I heard a little gasp. And another. It was my lungs clocking back on. I opened my eyes and saw Amalthea’s face. And Asael’s. Their lips were moving. Something was frightening them, but I didn’t know what. Then I saw, above and behind them, shouldering into view, the faces of Lyle Hoggitt and Sergeant Morrow. And I knew that the stories being told had come to haunt me in at least three forms: the least of which was probably the Sutton brothers!

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