“Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free.” DeathFreedomPretendingDeath And DyingDeadDeath Of A Loved OneFreeGhostsMamaDead PeopleDead And GonePretending Death Author:Shannon Celebi
“Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics.” EyeDeathPhysicsDeath And DyingEyesDeadWormholeApparitionSpace And CosmosApparitional Book:1:32 P.M. Source: 1:32 P.M.