The Distant Temple
The hand was always wet. It lay on the kitchen table, palm up, the wrist severed cleanly at the carpal bone, the flesh pink and glistening in the dim light. Elias woke with a gasp, the taste of copper thick in his mouth. He was forty-two, and he had been dreaming of his father’s hand for twenty years. He sat up in the narrow bed of his studio apartment, the sheets twisted around his legs, and...
0 Commenti 0 condivisioni 1 Views 0 Anteprima