He’d walked through this door thousands of times and never hit his head until a month or two ago. Now it seemed to be a regular occurrence.

“Sing me a lullaby.” I slide deeper into the bath, letting the water cover my mouth. We’re now at eye level, me and the yellow rubber duck.

Carl booked a doctor’s appointment six months after the Thing started to get out of hand. “It feels like there’s something growing inside of me.”

Her heart thumped wildly. She gazed out at the spot on the road where she had been, imagining blood-stained bitumen and a floral vigil.

We warned Eleni to be careful in that understorey—to stay in sight of us—but she was an explorer.

My friend always loved animals more than people. Even as a child she was a misanthropist, spending all of her time with insects, fish and other pets.

The girls pull out notebooks and makeup from their worn backpacks. One backpack looks charred, though who knows if it’s from the last fire in Olmstead.

Margaret rose to consciousness reluctantly, heavy with the weight of slumber. She blinked as her eyes slowly remembered how to see.

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