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- Author: L.L. McKinney
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- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy
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Alice couldn’t run. She couldn’t hide. All she could do was sit there as her
mother went. In.
“Must be out your got. Dayum. Mind. Just doing whatever you please.”
Mom paced in front of the coffee table, her steps barely muted by the
carpet. She’d kicked off her heels and abandoned one near the door while
the other lay over by the fireplace. This alone was a sign Alice was well and
truly screwed. “Like you run things ’round here. Like you pay bills, do you
pay bills?” Mom whirled on Alice, who had pressed so far back against the
couch she felt she might slip between the cushions and be lost.
“No, ma’am.” Alice’s voice sounded as small as she felt in the face of
her mom’s fury.
A little muscle in Mom’s jaw jumped as she ground her teeth together. “I
can’t hear you.”
“No, ma’am,” Alice managed, louder this time, the words thick with the
emotions coursing through her. Fire licked at the center of her face, and a
feeling like fingers around her neck closed off her throat. She just wanted to
go to bed. Couldn’t she go to bed?
“Got the school calling me ’cause you decided you just wasn’t gone
show up, I guess. Now I’m missing work, and for what? For what, Alison?
Knowing I didn’t raise you like this, knowing this wasn’t gone fly. Then
walk in here covered in lord knows—what is that mess?” Mom flapped a
hand at Alice, indicating the black splattered against her clothes and skin.
“And what is that smell?”
Alice stared at the stains. Yeah, that inky shit stank to high heaven, but
that wasn’t why her eyes started to water. It wasn’t why her chest went all
tight, like the space was suddenly too small for her lungs. She smoothed her
fingers over the rusty red splotch on her shirt. A handprint hidden under all
the other yuck. His handprint.
The heat behind Alice’s eyes filled the rest of her face.
“I know you not ignoring me.” Mom’s tone went razor sharp.
Alice wanted to answer, but the words tripped over her tongue and hit
the back of her teeth. What escaped instead was some sort of whine.
Mom’s eyes widened slightly. Her arms unfolded from where she’d
crossed them under her chest, and she shifted as if to reach out to Alice, but
lifted a finger in warning instead. “No, ain’t no crocodile tears gonna fix
this.”
The tears came anyway. They welled up and spilled over Alice’s cheeks
as she stared at the floor while fighting to keep from all-out sobbing. The
carpet’s shaggy white tufts went brown and green, the memory of the
shredded football field dancing in and out of her vision. The rumbling snarl
of Fiends and the shriek of clashing weapons filled her ears. Her heart
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