Talíc

By J T Dexter

A body. A storm. A cabin. When two friends are trapped in their home, long awaiting monsters find their way into the light.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: May 26, 2019
• ISBN: 9780244188481

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Talíc

Talíc

By J. T. Dexter

Copyright © 2019 by J. T. Dexter

All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

First Printing: 2019

ISBN 978-0-244-18848-1

All rights reserved.

The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

Taylor! Taylor get out here! I don’t think she’s breathing!

The rain hammered on Paddy’s hood, slamming every blow into his skull, the remaining echoes of the blasts reverberating throughout his body, reaching down his bones and through the marrow until finally reaching the earth below. Lightning scarred the sky with luminescent strikes, arcing and dancing like a constant slow dance, stopping and starting whenever the rhythm of the thunder played. The darkness reached across the sky, a gaping maw burning the ocean of stars black until only the void remained. No moon shone upon the broken land, no cracks seeped with curling vines, no crevices leaked any form of life other than the monumental power that the ocean held upon the coast of this storm-ridden place.

Taylor, come on! We’ve got to get her inside!

His cries were hushed by the wind pulling and pushing at the stone faces surrounding him, threatening to topple the great stacks that lined the coast’s fractured faces, crying and moaning as the wind blew through the mouths of these colossal caves. Waves crashed upon the agonized slopes once again, spraying spiteful spittle at the tall man huddled over the limp body. And from a small, simple hut charged another, the wind at his heels urging him forward to his friend’s aid, burning the sky’s tears that fell all around, finally falling to his knees just beside the taller man.

Hurry, we have to get her back to the house! The huddled man yelled, his vocal chords struggling to relay the message over the screaming of the gales that chained them to the ground.

After a frantic, hysterical run to the door, throwing it open and hearing the hinges snap and crack as they strained to hold the two hardy slabs of wood together, they were finally in shelter. Her silken hand lay across the stained and splintered floor. A