Аннотация
The Weight of Souls
by
Bryony Pearce
For my not so ugly sisters, Claire McCarthy, Ros Taylor and Gill Fourie
By hook or by crook you'll be first in this book
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
Edgar Allen Poe, THE RAVEN1
IT’S COMING TO TAKE YOU AWAY
Dead men take me to the nicest places.
I pulled my hood further over my eyes and glowered at the block of flats. Stained net curtains billowed from otherwise bare windows and, on half the balconies, shirts and greying underwear were hanging out to dry. My bones thrummed with a deep bass that seemed to boom through the tarmac itself; the music actually came through an open window on the ground floor.
It was twilight but the streetlights hadn’t yet lit. Most of them were smashed. On my way through the estate I’d walked through shards of glass like crackling b...

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