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by
Dean Koontz
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October 31 - October 31, 2020
butterfly flyin’ after dark is an omen, means your death is maybe comin’ soon.
“A woman steps on eggshells means she’ll soon go mad.”
valise
Anyway, I carry a chicory root in one pocket at all times.” His puzzlement seems to exasperate her. “To ensure good luck, of course, and guard against the evil of men.”
“White cats are good luck,
“Don’t step on no ants. We’ve had too damn much rain the past week. We don’t need no more.”
Justice has been twisted by culture and politics until its meaning is everywhere contested. Each of their missions is instead meant to bring truth and its consequences into the life of someone who has woven a persona of lies, thereby putting an end to his or her crimes.
When alone, she extracts a packet of salted crackers from her purse. She strips away the cellophane and puts it on a foyer table. With the three crackers on the palm of her hand, arm extended in offering, she tours every room downstairs and then on the upper floor. Spirits, if any, that have entered the house during her two-week absence will now understand that she means them no harm; they will, in turn, not disturb her.
A voice simulation program, Paramimic, allows their ghost to say anything they want.
Those who refuse a spirit can’t be haunted by it. That is a truth well understood by those who know ghosts are real. Consciously or unconsciously—because of guilt, fear, curiosity—you have to invite the spirit’s attention.
If ever a woman steps on eggshells, it means she’ll soon go mad. There is no escape from it.
If you crack an egg that has no yolk, your death is imminent.
the netherworld laws that govern these encounters. If in your fear you give an evil spirit your tears—or are so frightened that you pee yourself or throw up—the entity then has license to take another fluid, your precious blood.
Manifestations of blood are rare during hauntings or séances. Any medium, any experienced ghost hunter, anyone who is woke to the existence of other entities that crawl this haunted world will tell you that blood manifested on such occasions must never be touched, must be allowed to deliquesce, for whoever touches it will surely die before a new day dawns.
vituperation.
“No murdered man, if emasculated between the first blow and the lethal blow, can haunt his killer.”
harridan
The fat moon is past the apex of its arc, rolling westward like a coin following a groove toward a slot, and when it drops, perhaps the vending machine that is this mysterious world will dispense an item so rich in truth that humanity can begin to be cured by it.
