Behind the CLEAN ROOM

EXCERPT FROM WHITE HALL, RED HEART

...and then i saw under the bed two glowing eyes and a terrible scent like the woods after a storm and i was stricken with a fear as a creature started to crawl out from under the bed it was a deer a huge deer only not fully formed like a foal fresh fresh from its mothers bleeding womb and its eyes were a red that somehow felt black even though they glowed as they looked at me I felt a cleaver appear in my hand and i chopped at its neck and was drenched in red liquid and its piteous cries made me weep as i hacked at it hacked at it hacked at it some of the cries it made sounded like words like a baby trying to speak and I remember for years after I would wake up hearing that baby cry saying words that I cant quite piece together was one of the words sky was one of the words angels I dont know and I cant say as I grew up and left home I tried to leave the woods behind but even in the big cities of the world I would look behind me to see that deer split open and its guts spilling out trailing behind it as I would walk to the subway I would be dressed for the opera with a date from work and there on stage would be the deer crying those words and begging for death a death that only I could provide

I hear it now do you hear it I am sure that I hear it now it calls to me it calls...

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