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Its round head was as smooth as granite’s surface his fore head had vertical lines which soaked with age and time, bulging grey eyes, lidless; darting sideways most of the time. This was a nose less face and thick lips; twitching out of lack of correlation, of some facial muscles. The creature’s thin neck less head rested on a small body, the body of a week’s old child. The doctor watched the comatose woman lying on the operating table, while the creature watched him slowly licking its ugly lips. it’s perfect hands clamped down on the metal table in support as its head reared up as if its about to pounce. The doctor had requested to perform the surgery on his own, thinking it was a discovery which would be better launched with him in the limelight alone, even as a boy he had always loved to be the cynosure of all eyes this time was no different, immediately they had wheeled the woman in her stomach had continued to move even though medicine and any other form of reasoning, would have certified her dead for hours. The creature looked on as its short legs; home to very large feet continued to twitch endlessly as its tail thin snake like slowly recoiled round the doctors neck he stood transfixed eyes bulging, he knew there was no form of escape as the tail snapped his spine and then severing his head from his body as it shook in the spasms of death.

ATONEMENT THE BOOK PAGE 13

ATONEMENT THE BOOK PAGE 13 The blast of the ambulance’s siren this time was deafening even the residents could hear the urgency in its awry cry. it pulled up in front of Gianna’s building and a big burly person wearing a white coverall jumped down from the driver’s seat walking purposefully to the back door as it flung open and another person hopped out wearing similar clothing. They both pulled out a gurney and wheeled it to the front door, the detective who had made the call ushered them in while making a mental calculation that both women weren’t beauties he would like to be seen with, even in pitch darkness the burly one was just too manly while the elderly one looked mean with a shadow of a smile on her lips each time he looked her way. Where’s the body officer? The burly woman asked s her voice a shade too thin. “It’s not a body nurse? He pronounced the last word with a glint at questioning the title. According to him nurses where petite, sweet and cute and this woman was just the opposite, why was he suddenly irritated he asked himself, it wasn’t their fault that they were on duty, he attempted a smile as his eyes wandered back to the still form of the woman propped up by the wall and she was just perfect and yet……………………………………………..her eyes where positioned in a deathly stance. “she’s alive yet dead”his voice was a little above a whisper. The two women nodded and set to work as he leaned backwards head and shoulder resting on the wall wishing that he was anywhere but here………………………………………………………………