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“Haasje. The stuffed animal had a worn belly. Isabel placed it in the dip of a bowl, and the bowl held it like a bed. The beads-for-eyes stared up, blank, until Isabel turned off the kitchen lights. She left the room and closed each door between her and the kitchen - as if the thing might get up and return to her in the night.”

“The terror was as wide as the want: a boulder moved from the gaping mouth of a cave.”