Shadows of Silverlake

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chool and all, but I need

is it

I have an impromptu meeting lined up, and I don’t th

cool, I’ll go

lot ‘ , s

if I had a car’, I said, not missin

try

th a

tta go. Love

u too. Bye‘. I

munchkins? ' Ken asked, making me realise

h and a drizzle of

cise, if yo

ep or distracted. The school has been a bit shaken up with the couple of disappearances that have taken pl

ok, and spend the

used to bathe in the blood of young girls to retain her youth, or the feral creature that terrorised eighteenth century France , or the group

the bell goes and I have to keep the

me, Jax asks me ab

job was to get the kid home safe and sound, not a

lls that his friend, Blake , from his class, said his Mom was

out into kidnapping and serial killers. At t

me, Jax announces th

o get his homework done first

n he’s done with his homework. Algebra never seemed to go by so quickly as he rushed down to tell me he’s done

to get it redone, you missed

thing correctly ‘,

e he’s planning how to make me pay for my jo

et’s go watc

I said, poking him on his shoul

I would make a terrible professional babysitter. Jax looks like he’s high and loopy on

ome, so I tell him to come make a sandwich with me in the kit

in class today’, he says as I

eally’

I ask, placing the br

amous warrior, but he wanted to be the strongest man alive. So he made a pact with a bear, and h

eep his promi

ting ahead of the

captain

t his promise to the bear. The bear felt so sad and angry that he cursed the strong warrior and turned him into a

or a class of nine

vourite part of the

bear to make him strong’, he said, taking a bit

ting the sandwich was all part

o a bear, talk to them, and make a deal with th

a lot of bravery to do that

f I were in his place, I would want to be the bravest person.

l be home from work?’ , he asked

little late today. But I bet she’ll you

to wait a littl

, handing him