House of Sighs
“You know how I hate it when you don’t wipe your shoes on the mat.”
Not that Michael heard the mother’s tantrum over the ringing in his ears, a chime that gave way to rumbling, like that of an oncoming vehicle, one not too dissimilar to the bus that brought them to this innocuous two-story house in the middle of the Hunter Valley, the bus that homed the dead and flies. The rumbling was a kind of truth, a confirmation of cause and effect. Although it faded, its realities remained.
Sarah was dead.
The eyes of the shotgun slid into his vision with nightmarish slowness. Beyond the smoking tunnels issued the voice of the man with his finger on the trigger. “Look what you did, boy.”
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