Little Bird of Heaven
“And he didn’t like that, God damn he did not like being screamed at. Reaching for her to quiet her with his hands blunt and clumsy as a beast’s paws and at his touch she began to scream louder shrill and piercing in his ears in her terror he’d needed to silence her but instead he was waking and there was no woman—the woman had vanished—except the screams were a telephone ringing close beside his dazed head where he seemed to have fallen at a sprawled angle across a soiled bare mattress in just ...boxer shorts, T-shirt yanked halfway up his back and fumbling for the damn phone he’d knocked it onto the floor, snatched up the receiver and there was an actual woman’s voice frantic in his ear Aaron! God damn answer the phone! It’s Delray come get him immediately.
In his drunk-dazed state Aaron managed to sit up. Where he was exactly he’d postpone for later. Head felt like he’d been struck with a shovel. Mouth sour as puke. His grimy bare monkey-toes dug into the stained carpet like that part of him was instinctively grabbing hold of something solid.MoreLess
In his drunk-dazed state Aaron managed to sit up. Where he was exactly he’d postpone for later. Head felt like he’d been struck with a shovel. Mouth sour as puke. His grimy bare monkey-toes dug into the stained carpet like that part of him was instinctively grabbing hold of something solid.MoreLess
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