Excerpt: The Darker Side

EXCERPT FROM “THE DARKER SIDE”

Here he was now. Here he was now, after all this time. Boot heels sinking down into the slippery soft mud, he cast Tarah’s favorite flowers into the murky water. He watched their slow procession into the vein of the river until they were swallowed up by the dark.

What was he doing? Tarah was long dead. She wasn’t coming back. What the hell was he doing here after all this time?

He saw it then, that thing. A shadowy figure stood upright, expelling air in ragged bre...