Dark Is The Night

By Phil Redhead

The fair is in town, and a quiet young man leaves the house to see a girl. But it is only from the shadows he can watch her. She is out there enjoying the music and the bright lights. She is nothing like him.

What is it, then, that connects them? Is it the game she plays when she knows that he is watching? Or is it the darkness that resides in her as well?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phil Redhead
• Release date: Aug 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311905321

Phil Redhead

Phil Redhead currently lives and works in Surrey, England. He has been employed variously as a delivery boy, a supermarket shelf-stacker, a vault supervisor, a salesman of DVDs, a foreign currency cashier, a factory machinist and a shipping clerk.His Little Streets Noir books are dark sex-and-violence dramas set in dead-end commuter towns. He writes about the lonely and the weak; the losers and the misfits and the ne'er-do-wells - the little people who walk the little streets.

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DARK IS THE NIGHT

- a short story –

by Phil Redhead

Published May 2014 by Little Streets Books

Copyright 2014 Phil Redhead

Cover image by Chris Watson

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This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

He had kept the windows open so that he could hear the music as it drifted over the town. It kept him connected to her, somehow; it enabled him to visualize her movements. It was not the traditional fairground organ whirr but the thump-thump-thump of pounding house music. The beat was so insistent that a blind man could have found his