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“I watch it float away into the shivering shade.
“You could come with me,” I say to Jonah. “If you want.”
I lower my gaze to the mud.
“Sure, Samantha,” says the mud, “I’d love to.””

“He musses my hair again, letting the bitch curtain fall so that once again I can only see the world with one eye. “You know, the Wound isn’t going to Tap itself, Samantha.””

“SO MUCH YES also pumpkin spice something?!?!?!?!?!?!?
OH MY GOD, PUMPKIN SPICE EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

“He smiles. A smile so kind I almost cry.”

“I fall to the earth. I fall and fall and fall. It’s a long way down to the blood- and skull-splattered floor. And in the background, the song that was so familiar is still playing, the song my seventeen-year-old heart knows so well yet the name escaped me, becomes one I finally recognize as “Slave to Love.””

“… she wears pumps even though she’s at least two inches taller than I am and I’m a freak. Why? Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush.”