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Brittney hesitated "Why, Tanner?"

He gave no answer

"Are we doing the Lord’s will, Tanner?"

Tanner did not answer

"I aht Aren’t I?"

"Go toward the flames, sister All your answers are there"

Brittney lowered her are, soe

She had burrowed up through the wet dirt How long? Forever and ever She had burrowed like a an chanting in a singsong voice An eerie poeo A class assignotten

But it was still buried in her aping with black-edge fire dribbling likeshape intrude!

A blood-red thing that writhes from out

The scenic solitude!

It writhes!--it writhes!--with s

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Tanner sore i , sister," Tanner said Soon you will understand the Lord’s will"

Justin woke suddenly He immediately rolled to one side and felt the spot where he’d been sleeping Dry!

See? He’d been right all along He didn’t wet this bed

But just to be safe he should run out to the backyard and pee because he could feel a little pressure He earing his same old pajamas; they’d been in his same old drawer They were so soft because they were still from the old days His mommy had washed these pajamas and made them all soft

The floor was cold under his bare feet He hadn’t been able to find his old slippers Roger had even helped hi in this rooer had colored for him It showed a happy Justin with his mommy and daddy and a ham with sweet potatoes and cookies It was taped on Justin’s wall

Roger had also found the picture albu room It was full of pictures of Justin and his family and his old friends

Noas under Justin’s bed Itat it

Justin crept down the stairs so he wouldn’t wake up Roger

The old toilets didn’t work anymore People all peed and did nu deal But it was scary going out at night Justin was scared the coyotes would come back

It was easier than usual to find the hole It was kind of light out, a flickery orange light