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This Book Is Full of Spiders David Wong 30180K 2023-08-31

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I stared at hied "You asked"

His face showed nothing I thought of the Asian guy, casually disappearing into theout somewhere else And in that moment I almost asked Tennet what he knew, and who he was

I don’t know Maybe it wouldn’t have changed anything

18 Hours Prior to Outbreak

Hours went by, and the cops continued to not show up at eitherI orried sick about what I would say when they brought me in, but then afternoon came and I was evenafter us That er on their list of priorities

Co behind a counter, trying to peel the ernail (a DVD is a disc that plays movies, if they don’t have those by the time you read this) I know I’ve complained about the pain in my eye and shoulderwas also starting to hurt like a son of a bitch

I would have called in sick, but I had used up all of ain until January I take a lot of sick days,I wake up in a mood that I knoill lead me to assault the very first person who asks me if the two-day rentals have to be back on Wednesday or Thursday

I had worked at Wally’s Videe-Oh! for five years, been a e At the tiot discovered while working at a video store, and I think I had it in oing to be about a cop in the future with a sentient flae nineteen, that see parents is you don’t have anyone to tell you you’re heading down a path paved with grossly inaccurate expectations of what the world owes you

The people who raised me--and I’ll leave their names out of this--they did what they could Nice people, real religious Kind of treated ee kid they had rescued They knew my story, knew that I had never known ot kicked out because of that kid that died, they were real supportive Took h, then shortly after they s would be better if I stayed behind

My birthwith a dozen other people in an arrangement that could be called a "coes scribbled on lined notebook paper I couldn’t raph I skipped down to the last sentence, which was, "I hope you are stockpiling ammunition like I told you, the forces of the Antichrist will first seek to disarm us"

I scraped the plastic theft sticker off the DVD, put it back in its case, then picked another case off the stack Pulled out the disc, started scraping off the tag I looked around, saw there was only one custo a cowboy hat His jeans looked like they were painted on

The TV we had mounted in the far corner of the store was supposed to be playing a promotional DVD but I had switched it over to Headline Neith the sound down and the closed-captioning turned on They had been going back to the "hospital shooting" every twenty ht pants came up to the counter with a copy of Basic Instinct 2 and 2001: A Space Odyssey How could he walk in those jeans? Did they inflate when he farted?

I glanced up at the TV and saw a reporter standing in front of a street barricade Closed-captioning ry crowd trying to get in to see loved ones at the hospital The cowboy gave me his membership card and I punched in the number His account came up as:

NAME: James DuPree

OVERDUE: ø

ACCT STATUS: A

COMMENTS: THIS MAN HAS WORN THE SAME TROUSERS SINCE HE WAS A TODDLER

Manythe customer comment box on the computer We have John to thank for that He worked here a few years ago, after I begged the er to let him on John was fired a fewto the "Cole customer he served:

NAME: Carl Gass

COMMENTS: If he doesn’t have late charges, and you tell him that he does, he LOSES HIS FUCKING MIND