Amity by Micol Ostow

Author:Micol Ostow [Ostow, Micol]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-60684-380-2
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Published: 2014-08-25T16:00:00+00:00

WITH MY MOTHER’S DOUBT REVERBERATING IN MY EARS, I traced a tentative path back to my bedroom.

Something in her tone—that tremor, that poorly concealed ripple of distrust—had worked its way into me, and now the hallway, which I knew by daylight to be a quick, straight path from point to point, now it yawned and stretched, so that my doorway beckoned as though calling from across a looming chasm.

And more than that, worse, more worrisome:

The door, which had swung shut behind me hard enough to rattle my teeth, was now slightly ajar.

And the light, which I’d so deliberately switched on?

The light was out.

From behind the gently swaying door, the room was utterly dark, utterly black.

The wiring, I thought, heart skittering frantically in my chest. Fuses blow all the time here. They do.

It was the truth. But it didn’t make the darkness any more inviting.

I crept forward, one hand clapped over my mouth, forcing each footstep against the growing dread. Though the door continued to shift and twist, playing tricks on my mind, I reached it sooner than I expected, sooner than I would have liked. I stepped through the threshold of my bedroom.

The door snapped shut behind me.

I muffled the squeak that so desperately wanted to escape my lips. In the dark, I heard a scrabbling, a scrambling … the movement of some indefinable presence, defiling my space.

Well, that’s the problem, Gwen. That you think of this as “your space” to begin with.

This space belonged to Amity, after all.

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