Elizabeth, Beth, Betsy, and Bess, they all went together to find a bird's nest...
Shirley JacksonSay Morg--you mind if I use the rest of your bath salts? There's only a little left.
Shirley JacksonOh Constance, we are so happy.
Shirley JacksonAm I walking toward something I should be running away from?
Shirley JacksonTags: shiver
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my colored stones, all perhaps turned to jewels by now, held together under the ground in a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us.
Shirley JacksonOn the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
Shirley JacksonUpstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said hysterically, 'People starting to come apart.
Shirley JacksonTags: suburbs 248 pillar-of-salt
I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.
Shirley JacksonYou will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?
Shirley JacksonTags: wash macabre creepy sugar
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.
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