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Sunday is a weekly posting from my pre-published work in progress Eternal Curse:
Giovanni’s Angel. Each week I will post approximately 100 – 150 words from this
installment of the series. Please visit the
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Eternal
Curse: Giovanni’s Angel chapter 8
I
began to catch my breath as I looked around. I reached for my lantern and lit
it. I looked down and pulled up the blanket I’d thrown over him. There lay this
boy, a youth almost a man my age, but still a child. I remember thinking that
he was pale, not quite white, but definitely lacking in color under the night
sky. His body was bloody and bruised. There was a rope hanging from around his
visibly bruised neck.
I
reached down and tried to cradle him in my arms. I turned his head to look into
his eyes, to see if he was conscious, but my reflexes were overloaded as my
whole body jumped when my skin touched his. It felt like lightening was running
through my body and pulling at me somehow. Then he looked at me. His eyes were
black like charcoal; I’d never seen anything like it. It startled me so, that I
let go of him and stumbled back a few feet.
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