The Happiness Machine. Apricity (archaic): the feeling of sun on one’s skin in the winter
Means, Motive, Opportunity
THECRIME
OPPORTUNITY
MOTIVE
MEANS
FROM GROVER VS. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS CONCURRING OPINION
SUSPECT APRICITY RESULTS
THE SOLUTION
Brotherly Love
Such a Nice and Polite Young Man
Midas
Origin Story
Screamer
Body Parts
The Furniture Is Familiar
Tell the Machine Goodnight
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
About the Author
Also by Katie Williams
About the Publisher
Отрывок из книги
For Uly and Fia
Title Page
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He gave her a look but obliged without comment, turning them inside out. It had been his trick in the past to load his pockets with heavy objects. When Pearl nodded, Rhett stepped on the scale. She was not tall, but he was taller than her now, taller still as he stood on the scale. Taller, but he weighed less than her, and she was not a large woman. Rhett stared straight ahead, leaving Pearl to gaze at the number on her own. She felt it, that number. Higher or lower, she felt it every week, as if it affected her body in reverse, lightening her or weighing her down.
