This is a weekly bloghop hosted by Freda’s Voice.
RULES:
Grab a book, any book.
Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your ereader. If you have to improvise, that is okay.
Find a snippet, short and sweet.
Post it.
from Page 56 of:
“You know they’re chock-full of demons, right?”
“I don’t know that. This is the twenty-first century. We tend to be extremely careful about calling aberrant behavior demonic possession when it might simply be mental illness.”
“Seriously? Under these circumstances?”
“None of them appear to have any history with the occult, that I can turn up, let alone the kind of lengthy history that results in end-stage possession . . .” Elliot spoke quickly and precisely, dressed it all up with technical-sounding jargon, but a note of uncertainty clung to her voice like a parasite, sucking the life out of it.
Jennifer Porter
“Joseph Stalin reportedly said, ‘A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.’ You have a problem with that?” “They’re gonna kill a million?” “Eventually more. Two hundred ten thousand per generation, in the U.S. So eighty-four hundred a year.” “They told you this?” “One of them did. You’ll have to take my word for it. He’s not available to confirm it. I killed him. In self-defense.” Although he’d been to war, Gilberto was shaken. War half a world away was different from battles in the streets of his own country. He put his hands on the steel table and leaned into it for support. Jane said, “The people they kill are on something called the Hamlet list…”
Jennifer Porter
(Pg. 56 of The Crooked Staircase, by Dean Koontz)
HCNewton
nice!