Pyg

Pyg

Author: Pip Landers-Letts Listening Length: 8h 23m

Alice French is an emotional wreck. She’s left her toxic lover. She’s probably going to lose her job. She’s even about to ruin her expensive heels when she stumbles upon a barely conscious stranger one night… All Alice wants to do is go home and lick her wounds, but she’s compelled to help. Who is this strange man...

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WORMS DON’T HAVE FEET

L ight flickered as my eyelids shuttered; black to grey, black to grey, to ankles. A pair of women’s ankles in the thick swirling smoke. Mum?

No, too skinny. Matchstick ankles with black church shoes and thick tights, all bunched at the bottom. Bernard’s cries filtered in and out of my consciousness.

“Bernard!” I tried to call out, but my chest lurched violently. I coughed then dry-retched, my eyes burning and bulging with so much pressure I thought they might pop. A searing pain shot through me and then I was on my back with gravel ripping into my flesh and clawing at my spine. It felt like I was being dragged into hell, yet the air grew cooler and clearer, and the sound of Bernard’s cries grew stronger.