Time to Run (2016)
“Actually, the voice by itself wouldn’t have done it. It was the voice in combination with the phraseology. “Be quick about it, if you don’t mind.”
Be quick about it.
With lightning speed—the speed of imagination—Ethan was once again eleven years old, his ankles shackled by a chain that barely allowed for a full step, that prevented him from climbing a ladder without hopping. The pain was all there. The humiliation and the fear were all there.
Without the voice, he probably would not have recogn...ized the face. It had been eleven years, after all. The monster’s hair had turned gray at the temples, and hugged his head more closely. The features had sagged some and his jaw had softened, but the hook in the nose was the same, as was the slightly cross-toothed overbite. There was a way he carried himself, too—a square set to his shoulders that a decade had done nothing to diminish.
Ethan felt his face flush as something horrible stirred deep in his gut, a putrid, malignant stew of bile and hate and shame.MoreLess
Be quick about it.
With lightning speed—the speed of imagination—Ethan was once again eleven years old, his ankles shackled by a chain that barely allowed for a full step, that prevented him from climbing a ladder without hopping. The pain was all there. The humiliation and the fear were all there.
Without the voice, he probably would not have recogn...ized the face. It had been eleven years, after all. The monster’s hair had turned gray at the temples, and hugged his head more closely. The features had sagged some and his jaw had softened, but the hook in the nose was the same, as was the slightly cross-toothed overbite. There was a way he carried himself, too—a square set to his shoulders that a decade had done nothing to diminish.
Ethan felt his face flush as something horrible stirred deep in his gut, a putrid, malignant stew of bile and hate and shame.MoreLess
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