The merry-go-round was a bright, cacophonous music box that turned and turned, the grimacing, wild-eyed horses rising and falling, endlessly rising and falling, frozen in their galloping postures. On his face there was a look of concentration bordering on exultation. "Can't it wait till we get home? Lou pushed open the door. "Yes," she answered softly, "it can be lonely." It would be perfect equipment. "All right, Scott," she said then. The only trouble was that he couldn't open the door. Then, after a few seconds, the man grunted and went away. Les membres Amazon Prime profitent de la livraison accélérée gratuite sur des millions d’articles, d’un accès à des milliers de films et séries sur Prime Video, et de nombreux autres avantages. © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. ou ses filiales. "I want to stay with her for a while." There was nothing left between Lou and him; nothing. "Oh," he whispered, "Oh, God. The cardboard edge scraped across his side as he dragged himself out from beneath it. "Have you lost your mind?" He could not. "How terrible it's been for you; to see your wife and child magnifying every day, leaving you behind." "What in God's name!" Now, in a similar hose, he crouched, less than one fifth of its width, a mote man sipping driblets of water from a hand no bigger than a grain of salt. "I'm going to stay with her," he said. "If you knew," he said brokenly. He walked to the end of the car, jumped down the steep curb, and moved into the street. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight. I just..." Nervously she ran smoothing fingers over the lap of her robe. His chuckle was melancholy. "Mamma, can I go to the merry-go-round, can I? " Avoid it. After a few minutes, Clarice led him to the couch and they sat there holding tightly to each other's hands, smiling at each other. They did not look down expecting to see anything but dogs and cats. That's why he'd yelled and insisted on going with them. Gritting his teeth, he shoved at the rubber cork until it toppled. Positive function was still possible; decision was still his. Her gaze dropped from his, then rose instantly as if she feared he might disappear if she looked away too long. The climb was too difficult to be attempted unaided. He clung to her desperately. To look at the entire journey all at once was stupidity. "Lou, there's nothing for me now, can't you see that? His head jerked back. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 […] It's..." He shook his head in little twitching movements. It passed at least eight feet away from him, but the noise of the motor was almost deafening. A man came around the corner of the tent and started toward him. He didn't let himself think about the spider. Good enough. She'll-" His hands stirred fitfully in his lap, grew immobile once again. He was alive, he was trying. And, as if in instant reward, he found a large chunk of cracker behind the cement block. The first smile Scott had managed in more than a month eased his tight little face. It was dead. He walked through the trailer, opened the door, moved down the steps, and started back across the cold, night-shrouded earth. Hadn't he got there the thread that enabled him to reach the top of the wicker table and get the crackers? His fingers shriveled in abruptly, his eyes jerked open. Finally he went into the other room and, after a hesitant moment, sat down on her bed and picked up the yellow silk robe. He remembered another time in the past when resolution had come. Then, almost immediately, "I want to stay. "Please," she said, "Will you... come in?" "I see," he said again. Since it was a cliff, that made him a mountaineer. He glanced at Scott. Going on like this, day after day, getting smaller and smaller and-lonelier. Gray, cheerless light filtered through the windows. He sat on the thin ledge a few moments, legs kicking restlessly. It was another day. They were silent again, looking. We're not the same any more, you and I. As he drank, there crossed his mind a brief vision of himself holding a hose much like this one, carrying it outside, connecting it to the faucet, playing a glittering stream of water across the lawn. It pinned his ankle so that he had to bend over and work at it with his hands. "Thank you Scott," she said. Voice a crispness, voice a hollow waver, Dr. Silver told him that no, he did not have acromicria, as had first been suspected. For hadn't he got two thimbles from that carton, one that he'd put under the water tank, and another that he'd put under the dripping water heater? Excitement faded, almost died when he tilted back his head and looked up toward the soaring top of the lawn chairs as they leaned against the Everest heights of the wall. "I guess you read about me," he said. The Trouble with Demons (Raine Benares #3). Thunder woke him. "Just to be a man again. "I know," he said. En finalisant votre achat, vous vous inscrivez au service Audible et vous acceptez les Conditions d'Utilisation d'Audible. No point in going after the thread he'd flung into the cat's mouth; it was probably lost. Only far behind the conscious barrier did they move. Yes, all these. I-" He stood there motionless until she came out. The way she said it, the sound in her voice, made his desire seem vile. He had a brain. He swallowed. I've read this author's work before (I am Legend, which is excellent)and was looking for a bit of a twist to the linear movie version (which I'm also a fan of), but I must admit to finding it a wee bit dull. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. Breath shook in his shallow chest. Time stood stricken and apart while she stared at him. He looked around for thread. "Oh," she said, "it's what I'm called." Après 30 jours, payez 9,95 €/mois pour un livre audio par mois. He couldn't help himself; he moved up the last two steps and stood before the door. "Scott!" Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Another shudder rippled down his arms. His teeth raked slowly across his lower lip as he looked at the cliff that went up to the spider's land. All I have to look forward to is dissolution. It was like stepping into another world and leaving behind all the sorrows in the old one.

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