Night of shades
He didn’t even look up when the screen door slammed shut behind her.
“Wow, you really did a lot,” Karen said, leaning over to see what he was drawing.
There was a crayon girl lying flat on the ground, a girl in a yellow dress with long yellow hair all around her head like a halo, and around the yellow halo was a blooming sunrise of red.
The girl’s eyes were two black X marks and her mouth was a black circle. “Nancy,” Karen gasped. And she remembered.
I went to school that day. It was the thirteenth of November and Nancy wasn’t in homeroom. After homeroom we had biology together with Mr. Parsons, but she wasn’t in biology either, so I thought maybe she was sick.
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