Two Worlds And in Between: the Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One)
“Kiernan (Volume One) @page { margin-bottom: 5.000000pt; margin-top: 5.000000pt; } The Road of Pins 1.MayWithout a doubt, Perrault’s paintings are some of the most hideous things that Alex has ever seen, and if her head didn’t hurt so much, if it hadn’t been hurting all day long, she might have kept her opinions to herself, might have made it all the way through the evening without pissing Margot off again. The first Thursday of the month so another opening night at Artifice, another long evening of forced smiles for the aesthete zombies, the shaking of hands and digging about for dusty scraps of congeniality, when all she wants is to be home soaking in a hot, soapy bath or lying facedown on the cool hardwood floor of their bedroom while Margot massages her neck. Maybe something quiet playing on the stereo, something soothing, and the volume so low there’s almost no sound at all, Nina Simone or Billie Holiday, and then her headache would slowly begin to pull its steelburr fingers out o...f the soft places behind her eyes, and she could breathe again.“You shouldn’t have even come tonight,”MoreLess
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