Past Darkness (2015)
“Karl Kane Karl and Naomi sat on the bed, facing the dressing table near the far window. With the lights turned off in the room, the streetlamp directly facing the window filled the room in a weary greyness.
Karl reflectively watched his own reflection in the dullness of the table’s mirror. He looked wasted and lost, like a book with missing pages, or a man for whom time had finally run out. A glass of brandy rested tantalisingly on the small bedroom table, but he refused to touch it. He wou...ld do this without the assistance of Mister Hennessy.
Naomi, wrapped in a nightgown, was looking concerned. A terrible tension was stalking the room, like a hand grenade with the pin about to be pulled.
‘Why don’t we get into bed, Karl? You’ll be a lot more comfortable.’ ‘Thinking of sex again, Miss Kilpatrick?’ Karl false-smiled. It made him look even older than he felt, right at this moment in life. ‘Remember after we first met, and were getting to know each other a bit better?’ ‘Haemorrhoids, love of brandy, divorced, lousy at gambling, great at sex…?’ ‘No, that was you.MoreLess
Karl reflectively watched his own reflection in the dullness of the table’s mirror. He looked wasted and lost, like a book with missing pages, or a man for whom time had finally run out. A glass of brandy rested tantalisingly on the small bedroom table, but he refused to touch it. He wou...ld do this without the assistance of Mister Hennessy.
Naomi, wrapped in a nightgown, was looking concerned. A terrible tension was stalking the room, like a hand grenade with the pin about to be pulled.
‘Why don’t we get into bed, Karl? You’ll be a lot more comfortable.’ ‘Thinking of sex again, Miss Kilpatrick?’ Karl false-smiled. It made him look even older than he felt, right at this moment in life. ‘Remember after we first met, and were getting to know each other a bit better?’ ‘Haemorrhoids, love of brandy, divorced, lousy at gambling, great at sex…?’ ‘No, that was you.MoreLess
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