Friday, January 7, 2011

The Bully Killers Serial Novel on Blogger: Chapter 3

The Bully Killers Serial Novel Online

by Michael Engelby

http://thebullykillers.com/


Chapter 3

Charlie Dalinger

March 11, 1988


A wicked evil end, that’s what it was. A wicked evil end…yeah, yeah…and that’s the way it plays and always will be. Got a pretty good idea when it started, a pretty good idea maybe, but not exactly. There’s comfort, an advantage in knowing the exact moment when something starts. To know when the game begins, to know when the rules change.

Everybody’s got games running through their lives, blowing in the wind like long strands of silk tied to the branches of an old willow tree down by the riverside on a full-moon night. It’s beautiful just so long as the wind doesn’t blow in a hard rain.

The wind. Been blowing like this for what, two days now?

“Clack, clack,” against the window again. Here it comes loud and “thump,” the collision of gust and building and now the water in the toilet sloshes back and forth, ebb and slosh, no tidal consistency, up one side and down the other, slower, slower, slower, and calm.

“Clack, clack…thump,” the slosh and ebb naturally terminal.

Burn warm and tingle

The burning sensation haunts the mouth and leaves the residue of aftertaste upon the tingling tongue putting the soft numbness on the brain with nothing but vindictive intentions? One more day, you and I together on a misanthropic binge against the perceptions of the world...

See full chapter at: http://thebullykillers.com/the-bully-killers.html

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