Annette Blair by My Favorite Witch

Author:My Favorite Witch
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Horror & Ghost Stories
ISBN: 0786561157
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-06-08T20:04:14+00:00

Jason couldn’t fight his laughter any longer. He lost his breath trying, tripped on a bird, and fell against a wall that groaned, heaved, and gave . . . then he was tumbling, ass over head, down a real rabbit hole.

This was gonna hurt, he thought during the free fall.

Jason opened his eyes on a grin when he heard Kira tell a crow to shove its beak where the sun don’t shine.

He had ended sitting on a landing, at the base of the stairs, where it was cold, dark, and damp, a wall at his back, and one at each elbow. The dim cubicle, as square as the stairs before him were wide, harbored cobwebs, spiders, and dry dead bugs, draped, caught, and sprinkled everywhere.

He’d found the hidden stairwell.

He swiped a web from his face as Kira called his name, but he didn’t have enough breath yet to answer. The next thing he knew, she was running down the stairs.

When she got there, she knelt before him, and as she did, a chill draft encircled them, like an invisible rope tying them to a tree, before it rushed up the stairs, caught the door at the top, and slammed it shut.

“Shit,” Kira said. “Shit.” She ran back up. “There’s no handle.” She tried prying at the edges of the door with her fingernails. “I can’t get it open. Shit, I broke a nail.”

Jason rolled his eyes.

“Geez!” Kira said on a shriek.

“What? You broke two?”

“The birds are trying to get us out. The space between the bottom of the door and the top stair isn’t big enough for my fingers to slip beneath, but I can feel the tips of their beaks in the crack. Can you hear them? They’re shrieking like scared old women.”

Jason stood, rolled his shoulders, and flexed his bad knee, which took the fall pretty well, considering.

The rising sound of fluttering wings near his ear made him duck. It sounded like a bird was dive-bombing his head. “Son of a—”

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