"Charles L. Grant - In a Dark Dream" - читать интересную книгу автора (Grant Charles L)

reasonable-like standing on the edge of an impossibly high cliff and
thinking you had wings unflexed but ready.

Come on, Glenn, come on; it won't hurt; you can fly.

From the rock.

To the ground.

He shivered and sank back until his buttocks touched the ground; he
stretched his legs out and his arms out behind him. His hat, a western
hat battered and grey and long without form, prevented the sun's water
ricochet from blinding him directly; his jacket, dark denim, was zipped
to his neck, collar snapped up, the too-long sleeves rolled back at the
cuffs; and his jeans almost too snug, flaring to slip over the tops of
black boots.

"You know," his wife had said the night before, for at least the
hundredth time since the beginning of the year, "you really ought to
live in Montana or something."

It wasn't the way he dressed, clearly not an affectation; it was, he was
told, the attitude he no longer had the patience to hide-too damn many
people and too damn little land and too damn much government and too
damn little time.

"Right," he'd answered. "And would you come with me?"

"Are you kidding?" Marjory said, one hand waving his attention to the
mess in the kitchen. "And leave all this?"

They had laughed, and had made love, and when he woke up this morning
his hat was on the bedpost and his boots were on his chest.

He lowered his chin and stared at his lap. Then he yawned and laughed
aloud, and suggested he best get on
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his horse and ride into town before someone got the idea the bad guys
had nabbed him and had chained him in a cave.

Or onto the rock.

The laugh drifted away with the breeze when he rose and dusted off his
legs, his smile replaced by a slight puzzled frown as he slipped one
hand into a hip pocket and stared out over the water. The shadow of the
hill to his left slipped back toward its shoreline as the sun rose
toward nine, letting loose the green and the blotches of flower color.

Hunter Lake was a surprise for most visitors to the county. Most of the