Gemini Rising

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Brian McNaughton. Gemini Rising

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For Sheryl Eddins, the grandest girl in the whole wide world.

It was a long walk from the phone booth out on the highway, and the sun had gone down before the old man got home. That didn’t bother him. He knew the pines far better than most men know their own backyards. If anything scared him, it was not going home through the woods: it was being home in his lonely house.

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It was an odd question, since she had so recently been wondering the same thing about him. “Of course,” she said a little stiffly. “But I don’t drink.”

“And you don’t smoke and you don’t swear. That’s what fascinates me about you. Did anybody ever tell you that you look like a witch?”

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