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To be clear, if you’ve actually seen a ghost, that doesn’tto put a fa that does not have a face at all
John and I, on the other hand, can see what most of you can only sense We’re not special, it’s just the result of sos we took Just for future reference, if you’re ever at a party and a Rastafarian offers you a syringe full of a slimy black substance that crawls around on its own like The Blob, don’t take it And don’t call us, either We get enough bullshit frolish should have a word for that feeling you get when you first wake up in a strange roo idea where you are
Hotezzlement?
I was cold, and every inch of , like the jaws of a predator grinding through bone I pulled openproudly atop a hill before areen carpet I blinked, squinted at the sun burning in through a crackedI turned, hearingat a co into thea bottle full of a clear liquid that I’m sure you wouldn’t want to try to put out a fire with I sat up, realizing I had been covered up with soht for a moment John had thrown a blanket over me but closer inspection revealed it to be a beach towel
John glanced back at me from his computer chair and said, "Sorry, I used ot that leak in my car"
I looked around for the source of that ani behind the couch, with her head cra as fast as she could, trying to use her paws to keep the box in place
"You’re letting her do that?"
"Oh, yeah Cereal is stale anyway I don’t have any dog food here"
The dragon sat frozen on the television, the intro screen for a video ga while I slept on his couch
"What tiht"
I stood and felt my head swim I rubbed my eyes and almost screamed in pain from the wound there My shoulder felt like it had taken a bullet and it seehtiny pickaxes It wasn’t the first ti like this
My phone screahed and answered
"Hey, baby"
"Hi! David! I’ the news! What happened?"
"Shouldn’t you be in class?" Alish class last se through it
She said, "They cancelled it Oh, it’s on again Turn to CNN"
I talked around the phone to John, told him to switch over the TV He did, and watched as an earlyshot of the chaos at the hospital filled the screen The na the bottom National news
John turned up the sound and we heard a fe use or ess had been with the depart the area for Burgess but police say the nu up alive, quote, ‘highly unlikely’ Meanwhile, the hospital remains under quarantine due to unspecified infection risks that have only added to the anxiety in this shell-shocked community"
They cut to a shot of our enor a sound bite in front of a bank of etting huge"
Amy said, "They said thirteen people were hurt and I think three people died but there could be ht? When it was all going on?"
A pause onFinally I said, "We heard about it, yeah"
"Uh-oh"
"What?"
"David, were you there? Were you guys in on this?"
"What? No, no Of course not Why would you think that?"
"David…"
"No, no It was nothing Guy just went crazy, that’s all"
"Are you lying?"
"No, no No"