Jackknife (The Shivers Collection, #1)
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Read between May 20 - May 20, 2025
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You had to make rules for yourself, and you had to follow them, or you really were lost.
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Even though he rarely wanted the walk, he was always glad for it once he got going, if only because it got him out of the house.
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He longed to stab and hack his way out of a desperate situation: to hold off bullies, or wolves, or maybe a mountain lion.
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“Oh, Dennis. I never said you wanted her. You wanted this. You wanted to smash your marriage and your job and your life, all of it, into a thousand shiny little pieces.” “Why would anyone want that?” “Why do little kids break windows?” his soon-to-be ex-wife asked. “Children love the sound of smashing glass. Firebugs love a book of matches.”
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“That’s probably why it’s moving. The knife wounded it so it couldn’t go anywhere. Now it’s getting better.”
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You know why it looks that way, don’t you? Dennis Lange asked himself. It’s not just age. That tree was fertilized with poison. The choir director was poison.