The Elementals
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Read between November 24 - November 30, 2022
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There’s no point in advertising a circus when everybody hates the clown.”
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Daylight had not brought a solution, but it had accorded indifference.
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“To have a family is real strange,” said India thoughtfully. “All these people you wouldn’t have anything to do with except that they’re related to you.
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She opened her mouth to laugh, but no sound, only a long ribbon of white dry sand spilled out of it.
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Worry, clever thought, conversation all were crushed by the weight of the atmosphere.
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“He’d lick your balls if it put another dollar in his pocket. I hope you told him to fuck off.”
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“What’s in that house, child, knows more than you know. What’s in that house don’t come out of your mind.
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It does what it does to fool you, it wants to trick you into believing what’s not right. It’s got no truth to it.
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“Are we protected now?” she asked. “We done all we could,” said Odessa, and went away again.
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“Spirits living in hell don’t feel the heat. It’s spirits living in hell that causes heat like this, that’s what it is. Cain’t you feel ’em, child?”
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But it wasn’t the moon—a face, pale and with only the barest suggestion of features, was slowly retreating from the window into the darkness of the third house.
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When she stood, a long-fingered hand closed tightly over her ankle. Hard nails punctured her skin, and she felt her blood welling to the surface.
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Something was leaning against the turret, on its shadowed shingles. The outline of an emaciated figure—something
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“If anything happens,” Odessa said in a low voice, “eat my eyes . . .”
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Her eyes were black with white pupils. Bloody sand spilled from her mouth.