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- Authors: Somme Sketcher
- Language: English
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
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“MY NAME IS RORY Carter and I do bad things.”
The wind snatches the words from my lips, carrying them away
from the cliff edge and over the choppy sea.
I like to do that sometimes. Say it aloud when I’m alone just to see how
the truth tastes.
I’m not a criminal. I just do bad things. Morally questionable things.
Spiteful, revengeful things. I didn’t used to be like this, but now there’s a
stain on my soul so dark and stubborn that there’s nothing I can do to scrub it
away. So, I don’t bother trying anymore. Instead, I confess.
I take a step closer to the edge, holding my breath when pebbles scatter
under my sneakers and disappear into the raging Pacific below. The wind
howls like a wolf, as if warning me of the incoming storm. From up here, I
can see it looming in the distance, the black and gray smudges hanging low
above the sea.
arrying them away
one just to see how
uestionable things.
but now there’s a
I can do to scrub it
hen pebbles scatter
c below. The wind
m. From up here, I
mudges hanging low
A bitter laugh escapes me. It was always going to come to this. Me,
standing on the edge of Devil’s Dip’s highest cliff and thinking bad thoughts.
Which is ironic, because, for the first time in three years, I’m doing a
thing. A completely selfless, self-sacrificing act that nobody in their right
darn mind would do if they weren’t desperate.
I twist the ring around my finger and swallow the knot in my throat.
If I was to…jump. What would it feel like? Would it hurt? Would
everything go black? I don’t believe in God, or heaven and hell, but I wonder
—would I still scream a confession as I broke the surface of the water, in a
last-bid attempt to save my soul?
Balling my fists and stuffing them into the pockets of my hoodie, I lift my
toe and inch it farther toward the edge, until there’s nothing underneath my
foot but air.
Adrenaline zaps down my spine, and for a moment, I close my eyes and
stick out my tongue, tasting the salt and moisture and danger. I let the wind
take control of my body.
Is this the closest I’ll ever get to being free?
Then I taste something else. Something thick and bitter.
“You hoping to fall, or fly?”
Oh, sparrow.
My eyes snap open and I scurry away from the edge, feeling like a naughty
schoolgirl caught doing something she shouldn’t.
Heart hammering, I twist my head to follow the voice, and my eyes lock
on a man.
He stands less than a foot away. Sharp suit and an even sharper cheekbone,
from what I can see of his profile. It becomes even more defined when he
slips a cigarette between his lips and inhales deep
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