How to Sell Your Family to the Aliens by Paul Noth

Author:Paul Noth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781681196589
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

EVERYTHING OUT THE WINDOW

Stepping out onto the windowsill, I gazed up the blocky facade stones of Conklin Manor. They looked almost climbable here. But could I make it up two stories to the solarium? And in time to stop the experiment?

I thought of Baby Lu. And those wires. And Grandma.

Taking a deep breath, I reached into the crevice between two stones and lifted myself up.

I had daydreamed about scaling these walls. From the ground it seemed doable. But distances that look friendly from below can turn on you from above. You face wind, vertigo, and the cold, hard fact of a three-story, unsurvivable fall.

My fingers soon went completely numb, and I felt too terrified to lift my weight on digits I couldn’t even feel. So I wrapped my palms around a green copper downspout and climbed it like a gym rope. This brought me a few feet higher. An S-curve in the pipe took me near a fourth-story window ledge. But not near enough. I had to swing back and forth on the pipe a few times before I dared risk letting go.

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