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Ollie still hung back. She was thinking of Hansel and Gretel, and the witch's gingerbread cottage. But the lady seemed - nice. Ordinary. And she was a person! Not a scarecrow. Her eyes weren't white but reassuringly blue. "Come in, my ducks," she said. "You look cold."
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— Feb 04, 2023 12:24PM
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Just at sunrise, they saw a gap where the corn ended.
— Feb 04, 2023 01:11PM
Carmen
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Brian unexpectedly slung Coco over his shoulders in what Ollie vaguely recalled was a fireman's carry.
"The Boy Scouts are no joke, are they?" she asked.
Brian grinned crookedly and then they ran for the front door.
I don't care if he is 12, the kid is a mensch. I won't be dissuaded.
— Feb 04, 2023 12:56PM
"The Boy Scouts are no joke, are they?" she asked.
Brian grinned crookedly and then they ran for the front door.
I don't care if he is 12, the kid is a mensch. I won't be dissuaded.
Carmen
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The ghost laughed a long, shrill burst. "The smiling man is older than old," said Beth, still grinning. "You can't beat him. You might be happier in the corn with him. At least scarecrows feel nothing."
— Feb 04, 2023 12:53PM
Carmen
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Ollie froze.
A hand appeared on the doorframe. A thin, yellow-nailed hand.
Then a face popped around the edge of the doorframe. A gasp came strangling out of Ollie's throat. It was a woman. Or had been. Her skin was sunken in beneath the cheekbones, and when she smiled, her lips stretched too wide, the way a skull smiles.
— Feb 04, 2023 12:51PM
A hand appeared on the doorframe. A thin, yellow-nailed hand.
Then a face popped around the edge of the doorframe. A gasp came strangling out of Ollie's throat. It was a woman. Or had been. Her skin was sunken in beneath the cheekbones, and when she smiled, her lips stretched too wide, the way a skull smiles.
Carmen
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Coco didn't cry because she was weak. Coco cried because she felt things. Ollie never cried because she didn't feel things. Not anymore. Not really. She tried not to feel things.
— Feb 04, 2023 12:46PM
Carmen
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"Is this hell?" Coco whispered, small-voiced, after she drank.
"Nope," said Ollie. "It definitely isn't. Hell wouldn't be so wet. Besides, we didn't do anything bad. Also we're not dead."
— Feb 04, 2023 12:41PM
"Nope," said Ollie. "It definitely isn't. Hell wouldn't be so wet. Besides, we didn't do anything bad. Also we're not dead."
Carmen
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"Tetanus," said Ollie, "will just have to get in line behind dehydration, exposure, starving, and, oh right, kidnapping by evil scarecrows." But she didn't protest when Brian dug into his bag and got out a teeny first-aid kit.
— Feb 04, 2023 12:38PM
Carmen
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Ollie, Coco, and Brian dashed into the woods, dodging trees, wild with panic, sure the scarecrows were marching behind them in steady pursuit, while their dead mother wailed in her cold house.
— Feb 04, 2023 12:32PM
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"Deliver us from evil," Brian said suddenly, and crossed himself. The girls looked at him. "What?" he said. "I'm not a GOOD Catholic but maybe God is listening."
— Feb 04, 2023 12:13PM
