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Her back crawled, her muscles twitched involuntarily; he was behind her. The Dark man. He was going to destroy her at any moment. Spider awoke to the steady rhythm of windscreen wipers. She had been sleeping with her head plastered against…
Spider had never travelled, she had never had the chance. When she reached what people for miles around called 'The Big Road', she had considered turning back. Evening was falling and the great plains stretched away in dusky silence, vanish…
The Wirrens had lived at the farm for as long as Spider could remember. Her pappy had taken her there for the first time when she was a very young girl, dragged her through the swamp because a snake had bitten her on the elbow. She had crie…
Spider hurt, the pain was the first thing she was aware of, it shuddered through her body, made her twist and clench. For a long time the pain was all she knew, it burned inside her bones and hammered against her skull, she willed it desper…
The rain crept over the dark elms and the lake, over the broken plough lying useless in the field, over the dead stones; it crept like death itself coming for granny Wirren, and she knew it. She sat on the porch and listened to it rustling …