The Curiosities by Brenna Yovanoff

Author:Brenna Yovanoff [Yovanoff, Brenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Short Stories, Paranormal, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780761375272
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

It was spring semester; classes were just beginning to grow odious, and the weather broke. So, like every year, it was simply this: one morning they weren’t there, and then they were.

As a college student the Papillons offered me a different sort of entertainment than they had when I was a boy. The further I was from childhood, the easier it was to tell which day they were on. Day one: birth, discovery, innocence. Day two: the frantic search for other Papillons, the mad desire to pursue and be pursued. Day three: the weaving of new cocoons and then the countdown to death.

It seemed such a futile life. Such frantic scrabbling, only to die before the week was out.

But I didn’t have a lot of time to think about it. I had classes and exams and a campus full of college girls. The only time it stuck in my head was when I had to step over a body, newly minted and already exhausted, lying in doorway of my apartment building.

Then it was pretty hard to miss.

. . .

In my senior year, I broke my mother’s rule.

It was spring, and it was late, past Papillon season. Summer was edging slowly onto campus, stretching the days longer, robbing the threat of night. Soon college would be out, I would join the ranks of the matriculated, and the real world would steal me for one of their own.

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