The Bornless

The Bornless #592

The autopsies in his mind come to life. A line of blue-bodied dead, naked women are walking towards him. Young women, raped, strangled with barbed wire. Age four, knifed and thrown in a ditch down at Skeller’s Farm. Age sixteen, drugged, raped, left to die on High Fell mountain. Age thirty, drugged, raped, foetus cut out, burnt in a car at the quarry. Age forty, beaten to death with a chain, thrown in the river. Lastly a little boy, a little boy with no blood in him, dead as all the others, walking towards him. Jones had done that autopsy, he remembered that one vividly, to see a kid treated like that.