![]() ![]() Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. The lids of his eyes had rolled back like window shades, revealing two dark holes. Blood seeped down his teeth like painted lashes. Skin, no longer smooth like her teacher had worn in life, had now withered to the bone. A mask, like that from a horror show, replaced the face she had known. Because she was looking down at the face that was no longer there. When her mind finally registered the picture, she wished, in that instant, that she’d listened to Sheriff Jacobs. It was a strange color, a dark gray, extending beyond his lips-a shriveled turtle’s head of a tongue peeking from the edge of his mouth.īut that wasn’t the horror of it. She could see the tip of his tongue protruding. His limbs were at odd angles, like gnarled branches of trees, the legs contracted so tight his knees made steeples beneath the cotton sheet. In the corner of the room stood an oak sleigh bed, and in the middle of the bed were the remains of Mr. ![]()
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