Fics like The Devil That You Forgot

“I knew you were coming.” She admits. “No one ever comes to visit us; not family and not big bad wolves, but I knew someone was. I saw it in a dream.” “Cuckoo bird, what did you see?” He asks fervently, all wide-eyed intensity as he hangs on her every word. “A goat.” Harker fidgets with the zipper on her windbreaker, anxious that he will be mad the way momma was. Her mother’s anger is familiar, but if he were to scold her as well it would feel devastating. “I was standing in the snow and a big black goat was waiting for me in the driveway. It had huge horns and shiny black eyes and it didn’t say anything, but I knew someone was coming.” She brings her hands up behind her head, mimicking it’s great big knotted horns. Longlegs copies her and his hands are big enough that the silhouette he makes with his knobby fingers is almost perfect. In the dim basement light, she could swear it looks like he has horns for real. ------------------------------------------ Lee Harker is nine years old when she makes a new friend, twenty years later they will meet again and things are very different than they could've been.

Fics like The Devil That You Forgot

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