Tangled Up in Blue
LL Brown
For Warren and TL with much love
Published by Boat Drinks Press at Smashwords
Copyright 2010 LL Brown
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PROLOGUE
Sometimes early in the morning I can’t sleep. Something snaps me wide awake, but I refuse to recognize that sleep is over. I lie in the dark as if dead, trying to fool myself that I am still dreaming the deadness dream, the one where I am Katy and I am buried alive in a human-sized box, even though we don’t really know whatever happened to Katy, and I just got that idea from a movie called The Vanishing, which you should rent unless you get too scared by scary movies. I say that, but my true underlying belief is that everyone should be a lot more scared than they are. Not of terrorists, and not of criminals somehow getting past the gates of our neighborhood. But of something.