A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill

Author:Shaun Hamill
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2019-09-16T16:00:00+00:00

7

I gave Mom the new sketch the next day at the breakfast table, expecting her to sign off on it without much reaction. Instead, her expression went from preoccupied to something like outright alarm.

“Where did you come up with this?” she said.

I pretended to study the picture. “I don’t know. I made it up. Why?”

She seemed on the verge of saying something. “What?” I said.

“Nothing,” she said.

“Mom, it’s obviously not nothing.” Why was she freaking out?

She ran her fingers over my sketch and then glanced at me. “You’re not—you’ve never seen this thing before?”

Now my own curiosity was piqued. “Have you?” I said.

The tight line of her mouth assumed a few different shapes before she shook her head. “No. No, of course not. This Maria Davis business has me on edge is all.”

I didn’t know how to respond to that. What did a monster costume have to do with Maria Davis?

“Sorry,” Mom said. “This thing gives me the creeps.”

I could tell she was going to give in and let me have my way, so I didn’t pursue the topic further.

“That’s the idea,” I said.

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