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along the lonely third floor

He sprinted along the end aisle, to the attic stairs, around and down the spiral staircase, feet slamming with such panic-powered force that behind him the metal treads thrummed like drumskins quivering with the memory of thunder. From east hall to north, along the lonely third floor, he quaked as he passed closed doors that […]

and passed something to him

By turns, his experience with the man from the mirror played in memory like a dream but then as real as the smell of his own fear sweat. He felt a need to know what was truth and what was not, perhaps because too much of his life seemed unreal, making it impossible to tolerate […]

his slowly spinning mind spun faster

Often these enormous father faces wore noble expressions, expressions of fearless determination, of squint-eyed ferocity, but some smiled. One winked. One laughed soundlessly. A few gazed fondly or dreamily not at Fric but at famous women with equally huge heads. As his mind turned at a steadily slower speed, toward stability, Fric abruptly remembered the […]

with the intention of burning it later

The thought of the boy reading this hurtful drivel moved Ethan not to toss the magazine in the trash basket beside his desk, but to throw it angrily toward the fireplace, with the intention of burning it later. Freddie would probably argue that in an interview with Vanity Fair, she needed to calculate each statement […]

she had marked a section of the text

He had never previously been a fraction as interested in Line 24 as he was this evening, and his interest made him uneasy. If he were ever to puzzle his way through what had happened to him on this momentous day, he would need to keep superstition at bay and think logically. Nevertheless, when he […]