"Nayler, Ray - Man In The Dark" - читать интересную книгу автора (Nayler Ray)

"NO," Sam said, too loudly, to Alice and to Rachel. "The gun went off when we were struggling."

Alice slid a hand across the wall, and the naked hanging bulbs of the barn came on. Sam handcuffed the bleeding man. He ripped cloth from Glen's shirt, tied it around the wounded head.

Alice was looking into the stalls. The wide-eyed horses watched her.

"He killed my two best studs."

He looked up at her, taking the woman in completely now for the first time. Her fingers traced the wash of black horse blood along a plank. A woman stilted by hurt, turned to stone. The man on the floor shifted and twitched like a dreamer.

"It could have been worse, Alice. He could have come in the house...."

"It couldn't have been worse if he had raped me. He knew what he was doing. Men like him always know how to hit you where it hurts the most."

He thought of the rookie trooper, scratching Samuel Wilson off the locker with a quarter.

Alice was right.


Ray Nayler was born in Quebec and raised in California. His fiction has appeared in many magazines, from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine to Crimewave. He recently completed a suspense novel set in Toronto. He can be contacted at like_the_rabbit@hotmail.com. Ray wrote "Coming out of Nothing" in Issue Seven, "A Night at the Western" in Issue Nine, and "Man in the Dark" in Issue Eleven.

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