Page 81 of Glass (Crank 2)

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It feels like a lead anchor,

sinking

in a sea of quilt,

tugging me toward repose.

I’m drifting. Sleeping?

A parade of

faces

floats behind my closed

eyes. An ethereal Robyn

grins, her ecru face

distorting

into a vampirelike apparition.

Right behind her comes Trey

(predator or prey?),

handsome

and hungry as a winter-

starved coyote. Segue

to Grady, Grade-E loser,

vile

convenience store

slave and crystal meth

submissive, followed

by Leigh, my absent,

beautiful

sister, with her lesbian

lover, the cheerleader.

Then Mom and Scott, who

must suspect the

uglier

side of last night’s adventure.

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