6/21/2023 0 Comments Horns by joe hillNothing Ig can do, nothing he can say, matters. In the court of public opinion in Gideon, New Hampshire, Ig is and always will be guilty because his rich and connected parents pulled strings to make the investigation go away. The only suspect in the crime, Ig was never charged or tried. Ig had it all, and more-he had Merrin and a love founded on shared daydreams, mutual daring, and unlikely midsummer magic.īut Merrin’s death damned all that. Once the righteous Ig had enjoyed the life of the blessed: born into privilege, the second son of a renowned musician and younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, he had security, wealth, and a place in his community. But there was nothing natural about the horns, which were all too real. A mental breakdown would have been the most natural thing in the world. He had spent the last year in a lonely, private purgatory, following the death of his beloved, Merrin Williams, who was raped and murdered under inexplicable circumstances. and a pair of horns growing from his temples.Īt first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache. “ Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things.
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