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Insomnia (A Short Stories Collection) Insomnia by Kelly Covic
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“The brisk October winds were brutal through the sunset colors of the leaves. The kind of wind that went right through you, just to prove how infallible humans were.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“It was as if the previous owner had covered everything and…left. Not only abandoning the house, but their belongings, also.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“The house had claimed many victims in its two centuries. Ate them, consumed, and devoured. Tortured souls like idle playthings. Terrorized visitors by the whim of its moods.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“It was achingly sad. A grand house that would never be a home again, abandoned and unloved, left to its own devices.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“I long for insomnia or the nightmares again. At least then, I knew I was alive.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“Alone. The idea of it hit her square in the breastbone and culminated into irrational thought. That she was utterly, despairingly alone. The feeling nurtured until it swamped her, until a silly idea turned into thought and had become knowledge.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“The paranormal was just an unknown science that had yet to be explained.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“That’s what life and love should resemble. Contrast and beauty. Fragility and tenacity.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“Dust motes flurried through the air like demented tiny fairies.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“The lighthouse lantern had been burning a lifetime, a beacon for love’s safe return. For a man who had, in fact, made it back home, just not alive.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia
“There was no doubt in my mind that I was dead. I knew.”
Kelly Covic, Insomnia