Occultation

by Laird Barron

Bleak mythology had interested her when she was young and vital and untouched by the twin melanomas of wisdom and grief.

then she was heavily asleep, floating facedown in the red darkness, the amniotic wastes of a secret world.

“Remember the Golden Rules. Action equals reaction. The Crack that runs through everything stares into you. Big fish eats little fish. Night’s agents watch you, ape.”

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