Things Slip Through
“We’ll leave it alone, go away, and never come back.”
The pressure disappeared.
Our bodies leapt free.
But the sounds in the hallway, however, slid closer.
“Go!”
We pounded away from the pentagram into the adjoining room, arms and legs pistoning. With the loop broken, the window was propped open as Fitzy had originally left it, but as we fled the sliding filled the room, and to this day I’m sure that I felt the hot mist of breath on my neck.
Fitzy, quicker than Bill and I, scrambled through the window first, knocking away the branch and bracing it open with his arm. I’ve always wondered if he saw It, because I remember his white face and dinner-plate eyes as he screamed, “Hurry!”
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