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e and satisfaction。
REDRUM。 ing。
Drifting across the room。 Pictures torn off the walls。 A record player
(?Mommy's record player?)
overturned on the floor。 Her records; Grieg; Handel; the Beatles; Art
Garfunkel; Bach; Liszt; thrown everywhere。 Broken into jagged black pie wedges。
A shaft of light ing from another room; the bathroom; harsh white light and a
word flickering on and off in the medicine cabinet mirror like a red eye;
REDRUM; REDRUM; REDRUM —
〃No;〃 he whispered。 〃No; Tony please — 〃
And; dangling over the white porcelain lip of the bathtub; a hand。 Limp。 A
slow trickle of blood (REDRUM) trickling down one of the fingers; the third;
dripping onto the tile from the carefully shaped nail —
No oh no oh no —
(oh please; Tony; you're scaring me)
REDRUM REDRUM REDRUM
(stop it; Tony; stop it)
Fading。
In the darkness the booming noises grew louder; louder still; echoing;
everywhere; all around。
And now he was crouched in a dark hallway; crouched on a blue rug with a riot
of twisting black shapes woven into its pile; listening to the booming noises
approach; and now a Shape turned the corner and began to e toward him;
lurching; smelling of blood and doom。 It had a mallet in one hand and it was
swinging it (REDRUM) from side to side in vicious arcs; slamming it into the
walls; cutting the silk wallpaper and knocking out ghostly bursts of
plasterdust:
e on and take your medicine! Take it like a man!
The Shape advancing on him; reeking of that sweet…sour odor; gigantic; the
mallet head cutting across the air with a wicked hissing whisper; then the great
hollow boom a
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