"Conrad Williams - The Bone Garden" - читать интересную книгу автора (Williams Conrad)

'Thank God you're coming back.' Was that what she'd said? I shifted in
bed, feeling too much like something packaged and waiting to be unwrapped.
The footsteps above me completed one final circle then began to descend.
Outside, the grass wakened with a soft roar and it was then, as a shadow
spoilt the thin line of light beneath my door, that I realised Gran hadn't
been mourning my departure so much as celebrating my arrival.

й Conrad Williams 1994, 1999
First published in Northern Stories 4, and reprinted in the late great
Karl Edward Wagner's final Year's Best Horror anthology.