Klempner – The Present

Mine…

My daughter…

Mitch’s daughter…

Alexanders’ words haunt me…

You locked her in the dark with the corpses of the murdered...

I try to escape into sleep…

… The stinking breath

The blood-shot eyes, wild with rage

The fist…

Da... No...

And a scream of anger. ‘Leave him alone you bastard! Don't you touch him! Don’t you dare touch him…’

The smack of knuckles into flesh and another scream, now of pain…

‘Mommy! Don't hurt Mommy!’

The figure so tall…

The screams of pain becoming shrieks…

The smack of knuckles into flesh…

The little figure grabs for something… Anything…

… He swings the big metal stick with all his might, aiming for the ankles… ‘Stop hurting Mommy!’

A scream of rage and pain. ‘You little bastard!’

‘Run, Lamb, Hide!’

for the bedroom. His mother snatches up the

‘Bitch!’

screams again, and

door

from under

slamming the bolts on the door, top and bottom, then rushes across. ‘It’s alright, Lamb.

Sobbing, ‘You’re bleeding, Mommy…’

Sweetie.

cloth, squeezing warm soapy water.

‘A bit.’

I know it hurts but let's have a

you tell me

She’s talking all funny.

about the

beside him. ‘Once upon a time, there was a little boy called Larry....’ She speaks slowly, her voice going

‘Mommy?’

sleep now. You sleep too. It’ll be better in the morning.’ She pulls

*****

it time for breakfast?’ But she doesn't answer, doesn't open her

‘Mommy?’

*****

open up. I know you're

heaves, the bolts

fuck?’ Fanning against a buzzing tide of bluebottles,

the tiles, the contents scattered: wrappers licked clean, tins wiped, one trailing what looks like

small boy has an open gash on one hand, swollen, the skin stretched shiny and weeping

is she?

tears trickling. ‘I don’t like

the fuck’s that

want her to

As he pushes the bedroom door open, clouds of flies swarm up and

the little boy and pushes him into the bathroom, closing the door behind him. ‘You stay in there.

trembling, listening to the clatter and

open and the man marches in, reaching down to haul

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