No Alarms (2015)
“Her best friend at primary, Carla, had lived there, before her Dad got a job and they moved away. It only had houses on one side, the other was the beginning of an industrial block, not that there was much happening there these days. The houses were all state designs, packed tightly together hard up against the railway line.
Sharon remembered the way her and Carla used to put their heads against the iron fence and feel the vibrations of the passing trains. On a good day there’d be so much n...oise and shaking inside your head you could believe it was going to take you with it. It hadn’t though.
Meantime the houses looked like they’d shrunk. Maybe it was time doing that, or the grass growing up so high against their walls.
‘You live here?’ ‘You know it?’ ‘Sort of.’ ‘How do you sort of know something?’ ‘Sort of know you don’t I?’ ‘Here, stay outside while I tie up Tua.’ Justin slipped through the gate just as a huge creature, part dog part steroid, rushed toward them, barking and slobbering and twisting its head with excitement.MoreLess
Sharon remembered the way her and Carla used to put their heads against the iron fence and feel the vibrations of the passing trains. On a good day there’d be so much n...oise and shaking inside your head you could believe it was going to take you with it. It hadn’t though.
Meantime the houses looked like they’d shrunk. Maybe it was time doing that, or the grass growing up so high against their walls.
‘You live here?’ ‘You know it?’ ‘Sort of.’ ‘How do you sort of know something?’ ‘Sort of know you don’t I?’ ‘Here, stay outside while I tie up Tua.’ Justin slipped through the gate just as a huge creature, part dog part steroid, rushed toward them, barking and slobbering and twisting its head with excitement.MoreLess
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