Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

1: The Serpent Beneath It

2: A Mother’s Gift

3: Infestation

4: The Visitors

5: Take the Hint

6: Duality

7: The Children Speak

8: 911

9: He Killed

10: Haunted Doll for Sale

11: I Know

12: Hurricane Matthew

13: December Chills

14: Heart Still Beating

15: Christmas Eve 2016

16: Ashes

17: Rest