In The Tall World (Little Voices Book 2) by Angel Van Atta

Author:Angel Van Atta [Atta, Angel Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-05-22T00:00:00+00:00

11

It seemed like it tooked forever and ever and ever waitin’ for Papa and Megs to come’d back. We satted and satted. Lana talked to herself a lot as she looked on Papa’s phone, and I watched the games that Rachel played on her tablet screen as I satted in my seat. I couldn’t see'd it perfecty, and I couldn't hear any of the sounds ‘cause she was wearin’ headphones, so eventually I felled asleeps.

Inside my dream, I’m standin’ in the hall of a hobspital that’s long and long. I knowed that Momma is in a room all the way down at the other end, but the lights down there are all low and blinky. I can heared Peter somewhered cryin’ way down there, and I know he needs me, but I’m scaredy. My whole all of me is scaredy.

The lights where I’m standin’ are all bright, bright, which is good ‘cause the shadows can’t touch me here. I’m so ascared of the shadows ‘cause they sometimes are alived and not just nothingness. I knowed they are, even though grown-ups keeped sayin’ it’s only like that in my nightmareds. I wished they knewed that sometimes nightmareds aren’t just when you’re sleepin’. Sometimes they chase you through the trees.

The therapy lady doctor they made me talked to tolded me that my dreams in the blackberry bush, the ones that showed me where to goed, weren’t real neither. That it was just my brained tellin’ me the information I already knewed in a way that I could understand. The stuffs that I heard Charlie saids, and what Momma tolded me. But I thinked that growned-ups don’t believed in magic anymore, and so magic doesn’t believed in them anymore, either.

In my dream now, I heared a noise behind me. I jump and turned, and I’m breathin’ all hardy. The hallway goes on and on and on forever and ever in that way. The lights are dimmed there too. They’re blinky just like the way from where Momma is and Peter’s screamy cries are still comin’ from, only this way, the shadows are black, black, black way down there. Even the blinky lights can’t maked them goed away.

I stared and stared at the shadows down there. I haved to squint my eyeballs to see'd them clearly, and I thinked that they’re movin’. Not just stayin’ still like shadows should. And I knowed. I knowed that they’re the bad kind. The living kind. The kind that wants to eated me all up. And Momma and Peter too. And only I stand betweened them.

There’s not just one’d of them, either, but a whole many lot of them. They’re all windin’ ‘round each other and reachin’ out and out with longed-fingered hands. Reachin’ and clawin’ at each other and the floor and walls. They’re eached tryin’ to getted away from where they are and getted here. Getted to where I’m at. So they can digged their shadowed claws into my face. So they can digged out my eyeballs and slipped their sharpy fingers downed my throat and cutted me all up inside.

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