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The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army's clean streets and walks.

She had never been tried in fire. Now the trial was upon her, not fire but ice, and she would not be allowed to sleep through this.

She was an excruciating throb of pain from one end to the other.

I examined the portraits nearest to me but couldn't get past the sensation that here was the same man over and over, crouched in old boxes, readying himself to spit on my plate.

Defying her immutably kind voice, when Juniper draws nearer, she notices that the woman’s eyes are completely black and without pupils. Juniper gawks at the strange-looking, devilish deity for a long while before the woman, herself, breaks the noiselessness, “Am I so strange that you have to stare?

Luna’s piercing gaze denudes Juniper, to the point where she feels like she is fused with Tina, naked and violated before the brightening gaze of the moon. Juniper takes two steps back and her breath is caught in her throat. This jovial creature has eclipsed into something entirely perceptive and terror-inducing. Luna’s black eyes are staid and hollow.

To the left, just past the painting, on the other side of the hall, is the bathroom, the sort of open door that if cameras found it as they passed through the house in a horror movie would trigger a blast of synthesizers.

I stared at absurd Paris, which was as cluttered now, under the scalding sun, as the landscape of my heart.