Sundial
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Dumpster Puppy is a pessimist. That means someone who knows how things are.
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I wish I could have brought all the pale ones.
Tammie Powers
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Pale Callie sits beside me, humming and looking out the window. She knows about Sundial. She’s been there. I don’t have Pale Callie’s bones. I don’t know what Pale Callie is, really. Just that she goes where I go and always has.
Tammie Powers
Well that's fun 😕
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“Why would I get scared?” “Your mom … she can be a little unstable.”
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Pale Callie and I play “warm or pale.” This is where I guess whether the people we see through the window are ghosts or not, and Callie tells me the answer.
Tammie Powers
is Pale Callie a spirit guide? or a different thing?
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Sometimes I go to look at them. I don’t go in. I’m just making sure no ghosts linger there.
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I buried my old self at Sundial. We need to leave parts of Callie here, too.
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I tell myself that this is my way of keeping my razor-tongued sister near me, in my head.
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I know she’s your mom but she’s not normal. You know what we found in her office.
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We know that Mom sometimes buys contact lens solution, even though neither she nor Dad wears contacts.
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I reach the west fence I put a gloved hand into the bag and bring out a handful of meat. I throw it hard over the fence where it lands with a cold slap. I do this every hundred yards or so. Call it an offering.
Tammie Powers
To what?
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SUNDIAL IS LIKE a little village, designed in concentric rings.
Tammie Powers
it's Sundial a cult?
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Falcon throws a handful of something powdery in the fire. We’ve never been able to make him tell us what it is. But it makes the fire leap up in sparks that drift slowly down around us in the night air, golden. For a moment, they do look exactly like little bobbing lights, borne on wings. Then they sink back into the flames.
Tammie Powers
are they Native American, bc this sounds very much like that, but then mom is described with blonde hair so I'm confused
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It’s possible to feel the horror of something and to accept it all at the same time. How else could we cope with being alive?
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I see, then, that there are two red holes where its eyes should be.
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I see the diagram in my mind’s eye. It glows with irrefutable logic. The answer is there, and it’s always the same, no matter how many branches I follow.
Tammie Powers
pretty sure you could try therapy... 😕👀
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The overblown pupil, the rim of iris, they remind me of something, but I can’t think what. “Your eyes,” I say. “Are you OK?”
Tammie Powers
really? can't think of ANYthing?
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“She should be shot,” I say. “That’s not an option, Rob.”
Tammie Powers
bc she's bonded to Jack... Will Jack die if the dog dies? or will she just wish she was dead?
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“We think you were four when you were found.
Tammie Powers
it wasn't a puppy farm 👀
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We had already had great success with our first human volunteer.”
Tammie Powers
Pawel?
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Kids are mirrors, reflecting back everything that happens to them. You’ve got to make sure they’re surrounded by good things.
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We’ll have to keep protecting her as long as she lives.