By day, he waited patiently for them to find him and kill him. He was sure it was only a matter of time until they found him, although he had only the vaguest sense of who they were: a dark figure in a light coat, or perhaps a light figure in a dark coat, or perhaps somehow both at once. His memory seemed mostly to have deserted him, if he ever had one at all. He remembered a trip through the woods, his missing hand aching, his stump wrapped in an old shirt, a gash open on his forehead. Before that, he wasn't certain what he remembered. The dream of the woman with a baby leg might be a memory but maybe it was just a dream. The cabin was perhaps his cabin or perhaps just a cabin he had stumpled upon or perhaps part of a third undefined category, he couldn't say.
--Baby Leg by Brian Evenson (Tyrant Books)
Reader Comments (5)
man I love this book, just finished it last night.
hurray for the arrival of more evenson and the first new york tyrant book...
Glad we were reading it together! I started it the other day, but only made it through half, so i started it over again last night and read it cover-to-cover.
It's hard to believe how much Evenson put out this year--LAST DAYS, FUGUE STATE, BABY LEG. Anything else? I'm hoping for six or seven titles in 2010.
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oh, just got it in the mail, and am looking forward to it!
Great, bl! I'm looking forward to hearing what you think of it.