Candy by Lavie Tidhar

Author:Lavie Tidhar
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2018-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

They all took different routes, as one by one they disappeared into the night.

They streaked like candyfloss ghosts across the horizon, the only sound that of wheels spinning on asphalt, and by the time the truck driver emerged from the abandoned café of the filling station, a cup in his hands, the truck was empty, and Bobbie and I were the only ones left.

Silence lay over the sleeping world. The tail-lights of a passing car illuminated the curve in the road and passed into the night.

Even the gulls had stopped their crying.

On the hill above us the chocolate factory squatted, immense and dark and closed. It was a place of magic and mystery, unknowable and unknown.

And a thought came unbidden into my mind, and wouldn’t go away, as unlikely as it first seemed.

“What if Eddie’s there?” I whispered. I looked sideways at Bobbie. “What if he’s hiding in the chocolate factory?”

Bobbie looked up at the moonlit factory on the hill. His eyes were bright and round.

“Why would he do that?” he said.

I said, “It’s the only place they wouldn’t dare to look.”

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