Death Mask
“Molly felt too tired to stay up any longer, and so she went to bed-"Although if anything happens, you have to wake me!"After another twenty minutes, Trevor followed her, and then there were only Sissy and Mr. Boots in the living room, with the cicadas busy singing outside, and the weary ticking of the wall clock.Sissy went into Molly's study to see if the painting of Frank was still there. She looked down at it sadly and touched his lips with her fingertips as if she expected to feel him kissing her. One fall day, when they were kicking their way through the leaves, he had said to her, "You were so easy to fall in love with. And so easy to stay in love with.""Frank," she whispered. Then she went back into the living room and sat on the couch so that she could stroke Mr. Boots's ears while he dreamed of whatever he dreamed of. Not giants, that was for sure. Nor red-faced men with butcher knives and slits instead of eyes.Sissy slept, and snored without realizing that she was snoring.She... dreamed that she was walking through an underground parking lot, all echoes and shouts and squealing tires, and that she didn't know which way to get out of it."Watch your backs!" she called out, but her voice was thin and strangulated, and she wasn't sure if anybody could hear her.MoreLess
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