The darkness tugged and pulled, calling her like a long-lost lover--come back, come back, come back--and the more she fought against the sweetness the shadows promised, the more she knew it was a losing battle; the darkness always lied, but its whispers were too compelling to resist.
They say dead men have no secrets, but they do, and sometimes those secrets come back, not to haunt your sleeping hours or trouble your daytime mind, but to bite and bite hard.
Girls like me never get the boy, never get that sweet goodnight kiss on the front porch, and no matter how fast we walk, we never get away from who we are on the inside; all we get are dead, rotting things with empty eye sockets and cold, cold hands.
The noise, a quick little clink like two glasses brushing up against each other, crept in a little after midnight while Maggie hovered somewhere between awake and asleep in that grey area that made everything blurry around the edges, even night noise.
I poured myself the first Scotch of the morning and pondered the current weirdness that a capricious fate had deemed appropriate to saddle me with this time.
Jake whistled as he walked out his front door into the bright sunshine, unaware that in less than six hours he'd lose his job, his wife, his dog, and four out of the five fingers on his left hand.
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