The Devil's Alphabet
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“More like hearing things.”
“No shit.” I’d shocked him sober.
Amra looked at Lew, back at me. “Is this about the thing that happened when you were little?”
So Lew had told her. Which I should have expected—they were married. Family. “When I was possessed, you mean.”
Amra looked so sad I made myself laugh. “Come on, I barely remember it.”
“You ask me, he was faking,” Lew said. He steered the car onto our block. Familiar trees scrolled past the windows, bare limbs raking a close, steely sky. “Del would always do anything to get Mom’s attention.”
about the author
DARYL GREGORY’S short stories have appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, several year’s-best anthologies, and other fine venues. In 2005 he received the Asimov’s Readers’ Award for the novelette “Second Person, Present Tense.” He lives with his wife and two children in State College, Pennsylvania, where he writes both fiction and web code.
The Devil’s Alphabet is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Copyright © 2009 by Daryl Gregory
Excerpt from Pandemonium copyright © 2008 by Daryl Gregory
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