Published: May 13, 2012
Words: 12,775 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476214214

Short description

She is a shadow, a wisp of fog. She is an angel of mercy, visible only to the dying, come to ease the terror of their passing. She would give anything to be seen by the living. But when the only man who can see her deals in rope and knives and shallow graves, will the price she pays be measured in the lives of innocents? Would she try to become human by trading away her humanity?

Extended description

A terrible accident robbed Danaë of her life, but not by killing her. Instead, it transformed her into an angel of mercy, cursed to be unseen by the entire world, with one exception: the dying.

Now, she is pulled by invisible threads which lead her to murders that haven't yet taken place, or accidents that are about to happen, heart attacks that are only pulse beats away, and she waits for the moment when death descends, in order to soothe and calm the terror and pain of the dying's passing into the beyond.

The loneliness is destroying her. (Read more) A terrible accident robbed Danaë of her life, but not by killing her. Instead, it transformed her into an angel of mercy, cursed to be unseen by the entire world, with one exception: the dying.

Now, she is pulled by invisible threads which lead her to murders that haven't yet taken place, or accidents that are about to happen, heart attacks that are only pulse beats away, and she waits for the moment when death descends, in order to soothe and calm the terror and pain of the dying's passing into the beyond.

The loneliness is destroying her.

Things are about to change for Danaë, however. She's found someone who knows she exists, who can feel her presence, and wants to free her from her solitude and share his life with her.

The only problem is that he has a habit of collecting women, and when he's done with them, he buries them in shallow graves in the desert.

The one living person in the world who can see her, and he's a serial killer.

Now Danaë must put herself at risk in an attempt to put an end to the madman's rampage, before he finds a way to take not only her own life, but her humanity as well.

There are things in this world worse than loneliness.

Like a hand over your mouth, and the cold glitter of candlelight reflected on the knife's blade aiming at your heart...
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Tags

horror, serial killer, stephen king, loneliness, angel of mercy, abandoned houses

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Review by: Carol on June 02, 2012 :
A nicely done horror short.
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Review by: Cameron D. Garriepy on May 13, 2012 :
Danaë longs for normalcy, even as she passes through the world, cursed to be unseen and untouched by the living, cursed to be a last vision for the dying. An angel of mercy. When Christian reaches out to her in a Texan honky-tonk, she wonders if there is hope, and finds only terror.

Ms. Murakami's ability to write the horrific with startling beauty leaves me breathless. She is both a wordsmith and a storyteller. Her characters move and breathe in their space: Danaë is tender, deflecting pity with wry humor, and marvelously passionate at the crisis point, and Christian embodies the frighteningly mundane face of evil.

I had to force myself to slow down, to read this story with the care it deserves, even while the narrative pushed me to devour it.
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