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We stood at the turning point. Half-measures availed us nothing. —The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. [It is] the dubious luxury of normal men and women. —The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
PREFATORY MATTERS FEAR stands for fuck everything and run. —Old AA saying
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Page 8 and 9: LOCKBOX 1 On the second day of Dece
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Page 18 and 19: RATTLESNAKE 1 Her name was Andrea S
Page 20 and 21: pictures—Mr. Businessman with a b
Page 22 and 23: “And you and your friends call yo
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Page 26 and 27: MAMA 1 There was a muddle of bad dr
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Page 30 and 31: Next came the ride back to her plac
Page 32 and 33: He stood in the doorway, looking at
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Page 36 and 37: CHAPTER ONE WELCOME TO TEENYTOWN 1
Page 38 and 39: Dan recognized, although Tony hadn
Page 40 and 41: “Bus,” Dan said. “What does t
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Page 44 and 45: No, Danny thought. You don’t. It
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Page 50 and 51: “Fuck you, oldtimer,” he mutter
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Page 54 and 55: 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
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“Not bad.” She watched Azzie ju
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standing tallest among them. On tha
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Silence. But the presence was still
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It was also nice to have a grown ma
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feeble, woman dies—and then you d
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“Rose, I’ve got Nut with me,”
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Although the Geological Survey Cent
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“You’ve only got one appointmen
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“Does Abra know where the woman i
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8 In the common room of Rivington O
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(GET AWAY FROM ME! GET THE FUCK BAC
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CHAPTER ELEVEN THOME 25 1 Instead o
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“If she’s had the measles, she
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“Right.” She blew her bangs off
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Lodsam hanti, we are the chosen one
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a row? The Golden Sombrero? Dan’s
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At eleven o’clock that night, the
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“Buried that deep, and after two
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“I’m not worried about that.”
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He stopped on his way to her, halfw
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“You work at the hospice in Frazi
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“You can’t know that,” Dave s
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5 David Stone hesitated, then hande
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“Where are the rest? Do you know
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“We got no choice about this,”
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Abra ignored him for the moment. It
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CHAPTER THIRTEEN CLOUD GAP 1 EZ Mai
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“Hmmm?” She looked around at Em
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Bradley Trevor’s baseball glove o
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the Saco River Road—” Snake tap
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“Ready, Hoppy? I hope so. I hope
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digging for her cell in the pocket
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Andi coughed. Blood bubbled from th
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“We have to go back to Anniston,
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Crow glanced at his watch. Three p.
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that was enough. As he reached towa
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she could feel her physical hands r
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“Don’t tell me my business,”
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“Goldilocks? Dear?” “What?”
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“If you poison us, do we not die?
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN SWAPSIES 1 You will
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“Mrs. Deane wanted me to find out
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They took John’s Suburban. Dave r
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Dan tried to shrug the girl’s sho
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Have to kill her. Can’t give her
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adiated multiple shadows, like the
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arred by a heavy chain with another
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Billy thought of brushing her hair
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Dave was ringing the bell again and
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(everything will be better) The pow
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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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CONTENTS Epigraph Prefatory Matters
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