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- Author: Kate Alice Marshall
- Language: English
- Genre: Children’s Scary Stories
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Charlie Greer was nothing special.
Charlie had known from the time she could talk that the world was
full of things wilder and stranger than most people could ever imagine. Her
parents worked for the Division of Extranormal Research and Investigation,
after all, dealing with all the strange and inexplicable things—extranormal
things— in the world. That meant everything from ghosts and lake
monsters to witches and weird science to mysterious disappearances.
Then there was Charlie’s mother. She could see what was hidden, know
what was secret, even catch glimpses of things that hadn’t happened yet.
You couldn’t have a mom like Leigh Greer without knowing there was
more to the world than met the eye.
For a while when she was very young, Charlie had been convinced that
she had inherited her mother’s gifts. She had run her fingers over the
treasures in the local antique store, certain that she felt something, a whisper
of memory clinging to wood and tin. She had picked her dreams apart for
meaning and tried to match them to the things that happened when she was
awake. She was sure, oh so sure, that she was special, too.
“We’ll see when Grandpa Rupert visits,” her mother had told her,
snuggled up in bed at night. “He can always tell.” And she tapped Charlie
on the nose and smiled.
Then Grandpa Rupert arrived, tall and white-haired, smelling of licorice
and wool. He’d looked down at her, suitcase in hand, and said, “So this is
the girl. Entirely ordinary, then.”
And Charlie crumbled.
Mom never let on that she was disappointed, but Charlie saw her behind
Grandpa and saw the way her smile faltered, just for a moment.
A few months later, Mom and Dad brought Matty home. Matty was
special. So was Opal, who drifted in the door the next year, the light shining
right through her. And Gideon, who arrived the year after, four years old
and already making books fly off the shelves when he threw a tantrum.
“You and me, we don’t have any special powers,” her dad told her,
sitting under the shade of the old oak tree in the backyard. “Heck, when I
got assigned to the Division, I didn’t even believe in all this stuff. But in all
the cases your mom and I have worked, we did it together. As partners. Not
having powers doesn’t mean you can’t do amazing things.”
“I guess,” she’d said, digging a toe into the dirt. He put a hand on her
knee.
“Listen. People like your mom and your brothers and your sister, they
can do amazing things, but the world is a very dangerous place for them.
It’s the job of people like you and me to look after them. And that’s pretty
special, too.”
So Charlie worked hard to keep her family safe. She checked the fire
extinguishers to make sure they were always full, in case Opal had a panic
attack. She sat outside the basement door and read stories to Matty during
the full moon while he barked and scratched at the walls. When all the
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