The Mills of God
“He had a package to deliver – a package that would not fit through the front door – and when he knocked the door swung open.
‘Cheryl,’ he called out. ‘Where are you? I’ve got a parcel for you.’ There was no reply and he heard his voice echoing through the silence of the big house that she shared with old Mickey, her lodger, though the exact nature of their relationship was still a subject for village gossip.
He turned away towards his van and then he heard an unaccustomed kicking from the stabl...es. He thought this highly unusual because, say what you like about her, Cheryl was good with horses and would have turned them out to pasture by this time. Calling her name, the postman made his way in there.
It was dark inside and the kicking was coming from the horses who were knocking the walls of their loose boxes as a sign that they wanted attention. He took a couple of steps into the dimness and then he saw her, lying in a crumpled heap, with something obscene and black coiled round her neck like a snake.MoreLess
‘Cheryl,’ he called out. ‘Where are you? I’ve got a parcel for you.’ There was no reply and he heard his voice echoing through the silence of the big house that she shared with old Mickey, her lodger, though the exact nature of their relationship was still a subject for village gossip.
He turned away towards his van and then he heard an unaccustomed kicking from the stabl...es. He thought this highly unusual because, say what you like about her, Cheryl was good with horses and would have turned them out to pasture by this time. Calling her name, the postman made his way in there.
It was dark inside and the kicking was coming from the horses who were knocking the walls of their loose boxes as a sign that they wanted attention. He took a couple of steps into the dimness and then he saw her, lying in a crumpled heap, with something obscene and black coiled round her neck like a snake.MoreLess
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