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Rule #1: Stay indoors after nightfall, or you’ll be taken.
Abby’s lungs burned from the exertion, but it was a good kind of ache. The kind that told her she was alive and moving. That her body was strong.
We want to feel that we have control over our destiny, that we wouldn’t ever make the same mistakes that cost someone else everything.
Clocks wind back Windows crack Signals fall Motors stall Long red thread Someone’s dead
Rule #2: Red thread means a stitcher victim is close by.
She’d already seen three body bags carried out, and they still weren’t done.
But in every case? No one, no matter their personality or temperament, ever made a sound?
The Stitcher waits The Stitcher takes The Stitcher cuts The Stitcher shapes
Rule #3: Stay as far from Charles Vickers as you can.
Sometimes the worst things that happen to you come from the smallest decisions. You lean on the accelerator instead of the break. Or you shift your weight on the ladder. Or you leap into the pool headfirst without checking how deep the water is. Tiny, tiny mistakes that would have been inconsequential any other day. But for some reason, the universe’s gears get jammed at that exact second, and your tiny mistake permanently changes the remainder of your life.
“Was Hope Ward’s name on the board?” “Yes,” Thompson said, and climbed out of the car.
“Don’t,” he whispered, and his voice was hoarse. “Don’t you dare leave me.”
His voice was velvet and poison. “She’s not coming back.”
Hide, hide Stay inside Windows blocked Doors all locked Hide, hide Stay inside Footsteps near Stitcher’s here
Bridgette Holm and Nicholas Rigney had been telling the truth. Doubtful was haunted by a monster.
It turned out a person could make the correct choice, and still feel strangled by regret.
You never know how you’ll act under pressure until you’re forced to find out.
As the darkness wrapped around them, Rhys’s hand lightly brushed Abby’s. She reached back for him, and let their fingers twine together. They held on to one another like that as they followed the familiar path to the lakeshore.
