Whipple's Castle by Thomas Williams

Author:Thomas Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2013-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

He saw her every Friday afternoon, and that brief half-hour became his counter for time itself. She always had the rent money ready, and never let him forget it when he left. When he arrived she hugged him briefly, and they talked, sitting at the kitchen table. Always at the back of his mind was the question “Why does she regard me with such joy?” Me. She was in love with Wood, and that seemed right. He had fantasies of a family—Wood, Susie, children. What justice and calm! And he would somehow be part of that family, almost as a child. But no, there was something else he would be, and this part he shied from, because he felt danger. As if he were a soldier. Something like a soldier, only secret, a secret force to avenge, to obliterate the murderers who crept, scaly and cold, toward the children’s windows. He shivered with fear when this began to come to mind, but it was not fear for himself. He couldn’t place it. He couldn’t get it straight.

But in his nights a strange thing began to happen. Sometimes it was as though Leverah and Zoster and the Herpes crept out, their cellar stench falling from scale and tooth, but not for him. Toward him, but not for him. Beyond him, and he was the last outpost of the warmth. Arm thyself, he seemed to hear whispered. Monsters. They are monsters.

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