Daddy's Gone a Hunting

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Little fragments of thoughts were floating through Kate’s mind. Gus. She had called him.

And she knew right away that she had upset him. Why?

He had agreed to meet her.

Why did he sound scared on the phone?

There was no reason…

Kate felt herself falling back into a warm darkness. To sleep, but not to dream. She tried to whisper. Her dreams scared her…

She felt her eyelids fluttering… But they felt so heavy. Sighing, she closed them again. Why was she so afraid? She remembered. She was little and she was running in her flowered nightgown and she had reached the end of the hallway. But someone grabbed her before she could get down the stairs…

And she tried to scream but…

Kate drifted back into a healing sleep.