Lisey's Story
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Started reading June 2, 2021
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forth along this snakelike accretion,
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“like a couple of wolverines caught in a drainpipe,”
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Scrids. Their mother’s word for scraps.
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Her face said He does not bore me. Her face said He does not exalt me. Her face said I do not set myself on fire for him, nor he for me (the lie, the lie, the lie).
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Something with an endless mottled side, something seen best by cancer patients looking into tumblers from which all the painkiller had been emptied; there will be no more until morning.
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It’s very close, honey. I can’t see it, but I hear it taking its meal.