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When I was thirteen and still lived in the desert I saw a ghost woman at the top of a dry waterfall in the foothills.
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“Why aren’t shoes ever abandoned in pairs?” She said.
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I saw three kids the other day, two girls and a boy, crouched in conspiracy
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She told me it had been there since she was a kid, this large black spot like a blimp floating from her right arm up to the tip of her neck. She had really pale skin so she kinda looked like a cow strutting down the street.
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“Follow me,” he said. “They’re on the other side of the island. There’s nothing on this side. People—normal people—don’t live around here.”
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Something had woken me, but I wasn’t sure what—all I knew was that I had been pulled from sleep by something loud and sudden, and now I was lying awake, alert and unsettled, in the otherwise silent room.
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My voice sounded as empty and useless as I’d felt the night before, seeing her, bloody and battered, in the bathroom across the hall from my room.
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I picked my way down one of the stone staircases, where the broken stone urns wept weeds and shreds of bird’s nests onto the landings...
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“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
“Saving your life,” said the man. “Probably.”
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There, just below my knee, was a dark brown leech, fat as a battery, with a cuff of blood seeping out from its burrowing head.
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“We hear things all the time over here,” she said. “Coming through the trees, coming from that place.”
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They come to wipe themselves from my memory, but that, of course, is impossible. In this place, we are bound together, the long line of men who have killed me, and I.
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