Don't Let the Forest In
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No one would want a heart like his. But he’d still cut it out and given it away.
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It was quiet there, and the trees seemed like they could keep secrets.
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“You should write a whole book someday. Your stories are too short and I always want more.” “They’re meant to be paper cuts.”
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everyone’s first instinct was to go inside and hide under the covers. As if monsters couldn’t open doors and crawl into bed with you.
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To write something nice, he’d need something nice to say. But his ribs were a cage for monsters and they cut their teeth on his bones.
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What were twins, if not one to shout and one to whisper?
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he didn’t know if he was gay enough when there was only one boy he wanted.
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If the trees belonged to Thomas, midnight was in love with Andrew.
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“I won’t let my monsters hurt you.”
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The prince and his poet
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“I told a story.” Andrew gripped Thomas like he’d never let go. “I killed them with ink.”
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their monsters had no rules anymore; they didn’t stay in the forest, they didn’t linger in the dark,
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The forest had been growing inside him for a long time, he’d just refused to think about it.
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But his mouth was missing. As if Thomas had been waiting to learn the shape of it first.
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He’d thought there was a monster in the mirror and he only meant to kill it.