"I thought it was ferly fungi like those mushrooms resembling the dead's fingers," Abby says, staring at the wailing hordes on shaking knees.
"Somebody charmed the cemeteries again. Wonder who." 347

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Karen dug her heels into the cracked sidewalk as she watched Mama Lucinda buy new red shoes, shiny as chrome. In the dim shop reflection was a little girl who looked just like her. Sunny hair, dark eyes, holed chest.

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Sirens called them to Finisterre where the sea split what was beastly from Prince Adam's deviled heart. His maudlin wails avalanched the curse, prompting a deep breath of change; & the rose petals scattered in a gust.

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With no companions inside, she began to tire of singing to stone walls & took to filing her teeth. Winter's short days went. Her pistol gaze kept but that appetite grew & grew—& so, Snow White finally had Stepmother's heart.

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