The New Weird by Ann VanderMeer; Jeff VanderMeer

Author:Ann VanderMeer; Jeff VanderMeer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, Anthologies, Science fiction, American, General, Short Stories, Horror tales
ISBN: 9781892391551
Publisher: Tachyon Publications
Published: 2008-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Slivers of plaster scatter the floor. He raises his broken face. His father's face leans into his own, warmly. His father tugs on the rags covering his face, tearing free a shard of plaster. He turns the shard in his hand, flicks it aside.

"What has happened to your face, Brey?" asks his father. Brey turns his face away. He father reaches out, cups his son's chin in his palm. He forces his son's face to look at him. "Stand up, Brey," his father says.

Brey does not stand. His father grabs the straps of his harness. His father heaves on the straps, raises him slightly off the floor. Brey stiffens his body. His father lets him fall.

Moving back a step, he kicks Brey in the temple. Brey grits his teeth.

His father stoops, inspects the side of Brey's head, caresses his temple. He rises, takes Brey by the boots, drags him down the hall. Brey bends his knees, kicks them swiftly into his father's stomach.

His father lets go, stumbles bent and staggering. He stands wide-legged above Brey, catching his breath.

"This is for your own good, Brey," says his father.

Grabbing his straps, he drags Brey down the hall. Brey digs his fingers and heels into the floor, shaking his shoulders until his father releases him.

"I have given you slack, Brey," says his father. "But too far is too far."

His father kneels. He removes a set of keys from Brey's hooks, casts it aside. He removes another, casts is aside. Another, another, another.

He continues to remove keys until Brey bites his hand. Cursing, his father rises, departs.

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