𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙰𝚇 .

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“He said she looked like Sleeping Beauty sitting there behind the glass, or like an old-timey painting in a frame. The way he said it, the idea was supposed to sound romantic, but I couldn’t see how. Sleeping Beauty was in a coma. Paintings in frames weren’t interesting or exciting - they were just stuck there.”

“Out in the parking lot, the Camaro was sitting under a streetlight, so blue it looked like a creature from another world. Some kind of monster. I wanted to touch it.”

“For the first time since leaving San Diego, I really let myself feel the hollow in my chest. It took me a minute to recognize it. Loneliness.”

“Ever since I was little, I had loved monsters. I never missed an episode of Darkroom, and sometimes my dad would take me to the Bluebird Theater, where they showed old black-and-white movies full of mummies and wolfmen and Frankensteins.Lately, though, I was more into movie slashers like Leatherface and Jason, or  the guy in this new one they kept showing previews for, who had a ratty striped sweater and a face like Sloppy Joes. There were all kinds of monsters with superpowers and magical abilities, but slashers seemed scarier because they were less imaginary. Sure, a vampire was creepy, but psycho killers could actually happen. I mean, I saw the news. Creepy guys in dark alleys or white vans went after girls all the time.”

“Michael Myers was the kind of monster I was most afraid of, because he was real. Not real-life, but the kind you could believe in anyway. He never talked or took his mask off, but underneath he was still a man, and a man could be lurking anywhere. There are all kinds of dangerous things in the world. Maybe not exactly like him, but close enough. You can’t avoid them, so sometimes you just have to learn how to live with them.”

“Billy talked to me, but in this sly, confidential way, like there was something important he wanted me to understand. It was like he hated me, except for the way he went out of his way to make me just like him. Any hint of softness and he would never let me forget it.”

“I stared back at her, and she seemed so timid and so small. It made me want to throw down my mask and my candy and shove her as hard as I could. And it made me want to do anything I could to keep her safe and happy and never let her spend a single minute out in the real world.”

“My mom was always telling me to stop giving her that bug-eyed look. She said the way I stared at people, it was like I was trying to pull them apart piece by piece.”

“It was disgusting the way people always wanted to embarrass girls or tease them about their feelings. Like the very fact of having something that you cared about was worth laughing at. They all wanted me to be this soft frilly way, just so they could make fun of me.”

“Lucas had told me a story about monsters like he believed they were real, and I knew that it was true. Just not the way he meant.After all, there was one in my house right now.”