The Doll Who Ate His Mother
by Admin free novel ebooks, Category Horror
publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
year: 1996, epub 0.22 Mb
Clare Frayn stumped back and forth on Catharine Street, shivering. The July night was mild, the entire street was orange as embers beneath the sodium streetlamps, yet she was shivering. She glanced at her watch. Four o’clock, good God. No wonder she was cold; her body was at its lowest ebb. Even Rob had never kept her up so late before. In a minute she’d chance the brakes in Ringo the Reliant and drive him home.
He was standing at the corner of Catharine Street and Canning Street, a block away, leaning his long body into the road whenever a distant motor whirred. Beside him traffic lights blinked emptily; beyond him glowed the will-o’-the-wisp of a disordered telephone box. Around them both, in the Georgian terraces of Liverpool 8, poets and artists slept—half of them drunk and snoring, no doubt, Clare thought. Rob looked back at her over his shoulder and smiled, encouraging, embarrassed. Then he leaned out again.
Who else would have such a fool for a brother, Clare thought with a kind of irritable resigned affection. Stop leaning out, for God’s sake. There are no taxis. No sound at all, except for a ship’s low tone drifting sleepily up the Mersey from the sea.
But there was: the sound of an engine; the unmistakable sound of a taxi labouring up Myrtle Street beyond the curve, beyond the Children’s Hospital. She began to run, cursing her short legs, slapping basement railings furiously with her hand, for speed. She reached the curve as the vehicle did, driving down the side street opposite, not up the hill at all. It was a lorry carrying its baby on its back.
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