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The Neon Bible
Introduction by W. KENNETH HOLDITCH
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Then the first sock came. It was on my head right above my eye, and I began to cry again, only this time harder. They were all on me at once, I thought. I felt myself falling backward, and I landed with them on top of me. My stomach made a sick grinding noise, and I started feeling the vomit climb up into my throat. I was tasting blood on my lips now, and an awful scaredness was creeping from my feet up my legs. I felt the tingling go up till it grabbed me where I really felt it. Then the vomit came, over everything. Me, Bruce, and the other two. They screamed and jumped off me. And I laid there and the sun was hot and there was dust all over me.
When Poppa came to get me in the evening, I was sitting on Bruce’s front porch. The dust and blood and vomit were all still on me, and they were caked now. He looked at me for a while, and I didn’t say anything to him. He took me by the hand. We had to walk halfway across town to get home. All the time we didn’t say one word to each other.
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