Darkness Creeping
Darkness Creeping
“It was in a weird place—a little too high, and in the middle of a wall. It didn’t turn off any lights, or turn on a disposal. As far as I knew it wasn’t connected to anything. I got to thinking about mysterious switches and buttons. What if you were told never to flick a switch, or press a button. Would you be able to resist? No matter what the consequences?
BLACK BOX The old man wore a playful smile as he beckoned them closer. Karin and her cousin Randy stepped across the yellowing floor of th...e immense den, deep within their grandfather’s ancient house. They were paying their respects to the old man, as their parents had insisted.
On a cherrywood table rested a menagerie of colorful origami animals—a folded-paper zoo. Karin wondered whether her grandfather spent all his time making them or if he had folded the animals to impress her and Randy, the way he used to when they were five.
He always spoke to them in Chinese first, as if his speaking the language would magically make them understand it better.MoreLess
BLACK BOX The old man wore a playful smile as he beckoned them closer. Karin and her cousin Randy stepped across the yellowing floor of th...e immense den, deep within their grandfather’s ancient house. They were paying their respects to the old man, as their parents had insisted.
On a cherrywood table rested a menagerie of colorful origami animals—a folded-paper zoo. Karin wondered whether her grandfather spent all his time making them or if he had folded the animals to impress her and Randy, the way he used to when they were five.
He always spoke to them in Chinese first, as if his speaking the language would magically make them understand it better.MoreLess
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