A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher

Author:T. Kingfisher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group

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To top off an already rough day, I went to the bathroom to clean up my scratches and discovered that I’d started my period. (I know, I should have seen it coming, but I’ve had a few things on my mind, okay?) I groaned. Just what I needed. Did I have any tampons? No, of course I didn’t. Great. Lovely.

I checked under the sink and located some scrubbing powder for the bathtub and an elderly loofah, neither of which would make an acceptable substitute. Did Mom have any?

Normally I wouldn’t just wander into my mother’s bedroom without permission, but this was an emergency and I knew Mom wouldn’t mind. I kept my eyes down as I went through. (I didn’t expect to see anything terribly illicit, mind you, but everybody’s entitled to some amount of privacy, and if she happened to keep a vibrator out on the nightstand or something, I did not want to know about it.)

The master bathroom fixtures were all seafoam green, which I had thought was ridiculously cool at fourteen and still kinda do. Giant seafoam-green bathtub! What’s not to love? The bathroom mirror was spangled with notes in my mother’s handwriting. I checked under the sink, praying that menopause had not yet visited this house, and was rewarded with a familiar box. Thank you, Jesus.

I straightened, tampons in hand. I hadn’t read the notes on the mirror—they were almost certainly all just reminders to refill the toilet paper or call the mechanic—but my own name jumped out at me from one at eye level.

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