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“In September, they awakened after night frosts to a woods awash with floating gold leaves and a sky frantic with migrating birds – sometimes so great in number that they covered completely with their shadows the acre of light and air that Brian had managed to create. Sumac burst, in the course of one cold night, into clusters of red flame and the dark pines swayed in a strange wind. The autumn change was so profound, so convincing that both Mary and Brian felt that it was an aberration that mig...ht be permanent, and this, because it frightened them, they did not speak of. Only Liam sensed in the stir of the air a preparation for something else, and he responded to this by standing in the midst of the swirling leaves shrieking with nervous, wild laughter. He gathered the chestnuts that pummelled the ground and looked into the tiny demonic eyes of hysterical squirrels. When he visited the creek he often saw his mother standing quietly further downstream, passive, inert. He, fascinated by a swerving current, the twitch of a fish, the way gold leaves were swept towards the somewhere else that she had spoken of, wanted to know what it was that held her there, so silent, unmoving, entranced by water.MoreLess
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