The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Sarah Addison Allen
- Language: English
- Genere: Novel, Fiction
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- Pages: 127
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It took a moment for Emily to realize the car had come to a stop. She looked up from her
charm bracelet, which she’d been worrying in slow circles around her wrist, and stared out the
window. The two giant oaks in the front yard looked like flustered ladies caught mid-curtsy, their
starched green leaf-dresses swaying in the wind.
“This is it?” she asked the taxi driver.
“Six Shelby Road. Mullaby. This is it.”
Emily hesitated, then paid him and got out. The air outside was tomato-sweet and hickorysmoked, all at once delicious and strange. It automatically made her touch her tongue to her lips.
It was dusk, but the streetlights weren’t on yet. She was taken aback by how quiet everything
was. It suddenly made her head feel light. No street sounds. No kids playing. No music or
television. There was this sensation of otherworldliness, like she’d traveled some impossible
distance.
She looked around the neighborhood while the taxi driver took her two overstuffed duffel
bags out of the trunk. The street consisted of large old homes, most of which were showpieces in
true old-movie Southern fashion with their elaborate trim work and painted porches.
The driver set her bags on the sidewalk beside her, nodded, then got behind the wheel and
drove off.
Emily watched him disappear. She tucked back some hair that had fallen out of her short
ponytail, then grabbed the handles of the duffel bags. She dragged them behind her as she
followed the walkway from the sidewalk, through the yard and under the canopy of fat trees. It
grew dark and cold under the trees, so she picked up her pace. But when she emerged from under
the canopy on the other side, she stopped short at the sight before her.
The house looked nothing like the rest of the houses in the neighborhood.
It had probably been an opulent white at one time, but now it was gray, and its Gothic
Revival pointed-arch windows were dusty and opaque. It was outrageously flaunting its age,
spitting paint chips and old roofing shingles into the yard. There was a large wraparound porch
on the first floor, the roof of which served as a balcony for the second floor, and years of
crumbling oak leaves were covering both. If not for the single clear path formed by use up the
center of the steps, it would have looked like no one lived there.
This was where her mother grew up?
She could feel her arms trembling, which she told herself was from the weight of the bags.
She walked up the steps to the porch, dragging the duffel bags and a good many leaves with her.
She set the bags down and walked to the door, then knocked once.
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No answer.
She tried again.
Nothing.
She tucked her hair back again, then looked behind her as if to find an answer. She turned
back and opened the rusty screen door and called into the house, “Hello?” The space sounded
hollow.
No answer.
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