Things From the Flood by Simon Stålenhag

Author:Simon Stålenhag
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2020-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

SEBASTIAN SEUFFERT’S DRAGONS

Was Sebbe suffering from Loop Disorder? Some people thought so. His father had worked down in the Gravitron, and Sebbe never came to the community youth center. He had spent an unhealthy amount of time down in the Loop, waiting for his father’s shift to be over.

We never found out the truth, but I do remember that Sebbe smelled bad. I don’t mean puberty sweat, but an odor of a kind that made you realize that something was wrong in his family. It was a stench that he brought with him from a home filled with insanity. He almost never talked, but simply sat quietly in a corner. When the class was divided into pairs to work on some assignment there were always problems—sometimes students stated openly that they didn’t want to sit next to Sebbe “because he smells bad.” Cue nervous giggles.

I felt sorry for Sebbe, and I walked him home from school a few times. He barely made a sound.

After the flood, notes about runaway cats appeared on the bulletin board outside the library. It was a cat plague, some said. Others claimed it was related to the flood. Sebbe finally moved to a special needs school in Norrtälje sometime during early spring, and a rumor started going around that he had been behind the cat disappearances. A Krafta service technician was said to have found him on a wooded headland in the fields behind Solbacka, covered in blood and sitting in the middle of the aftermath of a cat massacre. They said at least fifty cats had been spread out around him, gutted and cleaned like fish.

Like I said, Sebbe was usually very quiet during those walks from school, but I remember him saying something that made no sense at the time, but which would make the whole cat story more chilling later.

“You have to come to my place and make cat food. We can make cat food together and feed my dragons. They are growing quickly now.”

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