Without thinking, Herb barged in, hand already reaching out to grab the kid’s retreating shirt collar. Xxx The same three cans of Coors had been in there since Labor Day, when his wife had insisted he quit drinking. Through that crack he saw a dark hallway and a glimpse of movement. “Willie’s not here,” said Nancy. The look made all the hairs on him stand straight up. She fed him one by hand, breaking it into bites with her fingers. At her feet, the cat hissed. It helps me keep my ghoulish figure. He scarcely had time to shiver, though, before she slid the entire thing into her mouth in one gulp. “Yes, almost everyone‘s Mum and Dad told them they could come and see me again,” said Miss Brookwood, as if reading Willie’s mind.
