The Narrows by James Brogden

Author:James Brogden [Brogden, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SF / Fantasy, 9781907777943
ISBN: 9781907777943
Publisher: Snowbooks
Published: 2012-01-08T22:00:00+00:00

But the blood-taste of Andy Sumner was strong; Carling was close enough to track him almost exactly, yet even so the unevenness of the ground and the squalling ley energy made him miss his step every now and then, and the Fane would snatch at the very substance of him.

It was not, strictly speaking, a physical force – it didn’t scour the ground; it flung up neither dust nor debris, and the weeds which he moved past were completely unbent by it. However, he was at a level of the world where there was no clear distinction any more between the physical and the immaterial – and it felt pretty damned solid to him. It was quite literally eroding him.

Every time he stumbled it took a little bit more, like a desert statue suffering a thousand years of sandstorms in a few minutes. In a previous life, some teacher had tried to make him learn a poem about a statue in the desert that had been all worn and beaten to shit, and he could remember something about ‘two vast and trunkless legs of stone’ but that was about it. It was funny what came back to you when you were dying, he thought. It got mixed up in his head with snatches of a Nine Inch Nails song which looped it won’t give up it wants me dead god damn this noise inside my head over and over. If this nightmare didn’t end soon, it was likely that was all that would be left of him: blunt stumps and an endless, circling scream.

His hair had been the first to go, shredded like smoke. His exposed scalp – and in fact every inch of exposed skin – was now pitted and cratered as the windless hurricane scooped out chunks of his flesh. He had his fingers jammed protectively in his armpits, because the last time he’d looked several of them were quite a bit shorter. Christ alone knew what was happening to his face.

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