House of Sighs
Julia had never seen such a look in real life, only in documentary footage in school about soldiers returning from war, the haggard men, their features deformed by the weight of guilt, by their own individual dread.
Behind the father: rows of dead trees. In their branches, crows ruffled their wings and sharpened beaks against the thorns.
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Wes watched them for some time. Their small faces through the windows. All white-faced, all squinting against the sun.
Once, there had been a large spider in the corner of his bedroom. Reggie was next to him, asleep at the time—and that was for the best. Had she seen it there would’ve been screams and melodrama, and that he couldn’t stand at the best of
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