Tales From the Nightside

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Genres: Fiction
There were neither rugs on the floors nor pictures on the walls, and only a single shapeless lamp. No matter the day or the weather, she always wore the same dress, an oddly shapeless garment whose colors had seemed dead for centuries. Her hair was decades long, braided and coiled into a silver basket around the top of her head; and her face and arms and thin, strong legs were shadowed with ancient wrinkles.
    But, as she sat at her piano, her hands glided out from long, laced sleeves, and th
...ey were beautiful.
    Eric sat quietly on the family room floor, his short legs pulled up tight in awkward Indian fashion, his back resting stiffly against the dark-oak paneling that covered the walls to the ceiling. His hands, as pinkly puffed as the rest of him, were folded in his lap, and for a moment he smiled, thinking of how his teacher would approve. Caren lay on the overstuffed couch, her white blond hair sifting down over her face. One hand dangled almost to the floor, and when, in her sleep, she whimpered once, it jerked up to her cheek, touched, and fell again.
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