Magic to the Bone
“He kept his eyes closed while the lady he did not know came into the room. She stopped by the bed he was lying in and pulled the covers up closer to his chin. That felt good and made Cody wonder if he should stop pretending to be asleep now. Wait, the older, smarter part of him said. So Cody waited. A lot of people had done bad things to him. Maybe the lady was going to be bad too. She moved around in the room and Cody didn’t know what she was doing. Pretty soon, he felt something press d...own at the bottom of the bed like she had left something there. Then the lady walked out of the room. Cody waited. He was good at waiting. He thought about nice things, like sunshine and wind, and maybe fell asleep for a while. When he woke up, he tried not to think about bad things, like the Snake man and the death man and the knife and the magic and the pain. . . . Cody whimpered. He remembered the bad things. The bad things were bigger and stronger than the good things. He breathed and breathed, but it did not make the bad things go away.MoreLess
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