Dark Journal
Her heart was hammering against her ribs like a trapped bird, and the urge to scream, to run out into the sunlight and never look at a book again, nearly tore through her throat.
I’m going crazy, she thought, her breath coming in ragged, pathetic hitches as she dropped her head between her knees, trying to stop the spinning room. It’s inside me. It left something behind.
She stayed like that for five agonizing minutes, trembling in the cold dark of the lower stacks, listening to the echo of her own frantic breathing against the stone.
But as the seconds ticked by, the roaring in her ears began to dull. The images of the beach house slowly receded, leaving behind only the cold reality of the
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