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Zusatztext 49775950 Informationen zum Autor Mark Z. Danielewski Klappentext In this story set in East Texas! a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller's tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches! the box is opened! a fateful dare is made! and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold. “The Social Worker had mentioned other “youngens “but that night Chintana saw no sign of any more. “Maybe the incresiating cold “or the peculiar threat of a storm “or Belinda Kite’s birthday “had turned parents from wrestling with seat belts and car seats— “—from those oh so “many lists of baby sitters tacked conveniently by a phone. “Chintana rubbed the violet line on her thumb as a woman with topaz clamped on her ears burst past her towards a small bathroom tucked under the main stairs. “?‘Such a hateful whore,’ the woman sputstuttersobbed to Chintana, “to no one in particular, “diving for the comforts of lock and running water. “Whereupon Chintana’s thumb abruptly began to sore a little “and she felt bleak, “as if a thousand “vengeances upon vengeances were dicing her suddenly “into hail. “Though the cause was none too mysterous “—the front door just stood wide open. “Though when it had been flung so Chintana would never remember. “The porch lights were extinguished too, oddly, & Zusammenfassung In this story set in East Texas! a local seamstress named Chintana finds herself responsible for five orphans who are not only captivated by a storyteller’s tale of vengeance but by the long black box he sets before them. As midnight approaches! the box is opened! a fateful dare is made! and the children as well as Chintana come face to face with the consequences of a malice retold and now foretold. ...
