Thoroughly Modern Monsters by Rainey Jennifer

Author:Rainey, Jennifer [Rainey, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781475101812
Publisher: Createspace
Published: 2012-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

He held his breath and let the water fill his ears so that he could no longer hear Francis bellowing outside. He heard the ocean in his head.

But that evening, it didn’t soothe him as he would have liked it to. It made his skin crawl—not as much as the sounds outside his trailer, but enough. It made Quinnish feel misplaced there with the DeLuis brothers and their cougar-tiger and Ferris wheel and carousel and various Barnum and Bailey-style accoutrements.

He sat up in the bath again and released a soft, frustrated groan. He shook his limbs and cracked his neck, and still his muscles were tense.

Quinnish shut his eyes and saw a pair of blue ones looking back at him, beautiful but unnerving to him. They blinked and smiled in that way eyes can, and he resolved from that moment on not to shut his eyes again until he went to sleep. There was something about Grace’s gaze in all its loveliness that made him feel as though he were looking at something he shouldn’t. He wanted to look away, and yet, her gaze was undeniable.

The movement of the water felt awkward, inadequate between his fingers, and he glanced to his suit on the back of the door. For the first time, the arms looked too long, the shoulders saggy and the legs uneven. He frowned and slid underwater again.

He heard the ocean in his head.

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