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Abra ignored him for the moment. It was Dan she spoke to. “They deserve it for what they did to the baseball boy.” She wiped at her mouth with her cupped hand, as if to erase that smile, but when she pulled the hand away the smile was still there, her thinned lips showing the tips of her teeth. She clenched the hand into a fist. “They deserve it.”
PART THREE MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
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We stood at the turning point. Half
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LOCKBOX 1 On the second day of Dece
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“Will you talk to Dick?” Lying
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“I sure do.” “What did I say?
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to a place for bad children. Then G
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circling and then landing for more
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RATTLESNAKE 1 Her name was Andrea S
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pictures—Mr. Businessman with a b
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“And you and your friends call yo
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puffed shut like a closing mouth. T
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MAMA 1 There was a muddle of bad dr
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of a ring sitting in the middle of
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Next came the ride back to her plac
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He stood in the doorway, looking at
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hand. Canny. Mama. I will never spe
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CHAPTER ONE WELCOME TO TEENYTOWN 1
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Dan recognized, although Tony hadn
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“Bus,” Dan said. “What does t
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shining, but mostly it’s just a t
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No, Danny thought. You don’t. It
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windowsill, where it would stay col
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This time it was him. 12 When he wo
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“Fuck you, oldtimer,” he mutter
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He could see his face in the mirror
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CHAPTER TWO BAD NUMBERS 1 The elder
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Another thought (did you save it) r
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The Stones woke together, both init
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“Heard what?” David asked. With
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CHAPTER THREE SPOONS 1 It was a twe
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outside—the so-called meeting aft
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started crying and wouldn’t stop.
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“She was playing to herself,” C
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speaks sharply to her, and when she
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He did put in a space heater, but t
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emotional echo chambers. If they gr
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attraction. A couple swung lazily f
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CHAPTER FOUR PAGING DOCTOR SLEEP 1
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the person so chosen happened to be
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Dan pushed up the sleeve of Charlie
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walked, taking long slow breaths to
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CHAPTER FIVE THE TRUE KNOT 1 The Tr
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ticket in those EZ-on, EZ-off conve
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But you couldn’t always have stea
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“If it’s about the toilets, dar
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The True rolled out the next mornin
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“Who are you?” “A friend. Hop
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which was soaked with sweat. I knew
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“Is that something you know or ju
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“You still hitting that?” Casey
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4 When Dan got back to his turret r
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the walkway between Rivington House
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“I know,” Dan said. “There is
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“Is your buddy okay?” John aske
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PART TWO EMPTY DEVILS
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summed up all the absurdity of the
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this). Just toss it in the garage t
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thought about at night? Did they ke
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Her heart was thumping hard-hard-ha
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crazy feeling of someone INSIDE HER
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“Remember me telling you she was
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Ninja and she certainly didn’t wa
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“What would I do?” he’d asked
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might tear him apart. Had he been t
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That was loud enough to make him wi
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“It was partly about the ghostie
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“I suppose I could.” But of cou
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She grinned. “Course not, Uncle D
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that. There was always work for a m
Page 142 and 143: “Not bad.” She watched Azzie ju
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Page 146 and 147: Silence. But the presence was still
Page 148 and 149: It was also nice to have a grown ma
Page 150 and 151: feeble, woman dies—and then you d
Page 152 and 153: “Rose, I’ve got Nut with me,”
Page 154 and 155: Although the Geological Survey Cent
Page 156 and 157: “You’ve only got one appointmen
Page 158 and 159: “Does Abra know where the woman i
Page 160 and 161: 8 In the common room of Rivington O
Page 162 and 163: (GET AWAY FROM ME! GET THE FUCK BAC
Page 164 and 165: CHAPTER ELEVEN THOME 25 1 Instead o
Page 166 and 167: “If she’s had the measles, she
Page 168 and 169: “Right.” She blew her bangs off
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Page 172 and 173: a row? The Golden Sombrero? Dan’s
Page 174 and 175: At eleven o’clock that night, the
Page 176 and 177: “Buried that deep, and after two
Page 178 and 179: “I’m not worried about that.”
Page 180 and 181: He stopped on his way to her, halfw
Page 182 and 183: “You work at the hospice in Frazi
Page 184 and 185: “You can’t know that,” Dave s
Page 186 and 187: 5 David Stone hesitated, then hande
Page 188 and 189: “Where are the rest? Do you know
Page 190 and 191: “We got no choice about this,”
Page 194 and 195: CHAPTER THIRTEEN CLOUD GAP 1 EZ Mai
Page 196 and 197: “Hmmm?” She looked around at Em
Page 198 and 199: Bradley Trevor’s baseball glove o
Page 200 and 201: the Saco River Road—” Snake tap
Page 202 and 203: “Ready, Hoppy? I hope so. I hope
Page 204 and 205: digging for her cell in the pocket
Page 206 and 207: Andi coughed. Blood bubbled from th
Page 208 and 209: “We have to go back to Anniston,
Page 210 and 211: Crow glanced at his watch. Three p.
Page 212 and 213: that was enough. As he reached towa
Page 214 and 215: she could feel her physical hands r
Page 216 and 217: “Don’t tell me my business,”
Page 218 and 219: “Goldilocks? Dear?” “What?”
Page 220 and 221: “If you poison us, do we not die?
Page 222 and 223: CHAPTER FIFTEEN SWAPSIES 1 You will
Page 224 and 225: “Mrs. Deane wanted me to find out
Page 226 and 227: They took John’s Suburban. Dave r
Page 228 and 229: Dan tried to shrug the girl’s sho
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Page 232 and 233: adiated multiple shadows, like the
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Page 236 and 237: Billy thought of brushing her hair
Page 238 and 239: Dave was ringing the bell again and
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Crow . . . put into her.” “Soon
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“They are.” “And the hotel wa
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“I don’t know, but she must hav
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“These bastards have been around
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America or Pedro’s South of the B
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“Abra Stone. You know my name, do
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You’re a cheater and a liar. You
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At last she went into the galley fo
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN GOING WEST 1 What
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Dan looked at her closely. (do you
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The other (this was stronger) was k
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8 Abra kept putting off the thing s
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“Abra starts pinging around Denve
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Ping. When Billy came out, Dan nodd
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Please let my daughter be all right
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empty—just a tiny storage room wi
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Dan maintained a steady walking pac
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little girl would come up here, bec
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Abra to help him. “I don’t thin
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grief blotted out everything else,
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CHAPTER TWENTY HUB OF THE WHEEL, RO
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Something grabbed his head. Powerfu
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Still, she was winning. His hands w
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As they tromped through the ashes,
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ANNIVERSARY 1 The Saturday noon AA
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“This woman, her name was Deenie.
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The color on the water had faded to
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“Yes. Just remember how dangerous
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“Don’t worry about Brownie,”
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Chris Lotts supplied Italian when I
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We hope you enjoyed reading this Sc
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