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Just Like the Ones He Used to Know: Part III
This is the third installment of Robert J. Wiersema’s holiday tale of the ghostly and the miraculous, written exclusively for [email protected] and appearing every day until Christmas Eve. Wiersema is the author of the national bestseller Before I Wake and the novella The World More Full of Weeping.
After the bus pulled away, Dustin stood for a long moment in front of Rainbow’s End Herbal as if unable to move. The cold air burned in his nose, the wind blowing snow into his face like tiny shards of glass.
Across the street, the park was a moonscape of unbroken snow, rising in humps and gentle knolls over picnic tables and benches. Every bare branch was rimed with white, and seemed to shine against the rich light.
Snow sky, bruised pink-grey and luminescent, and the strange electric silence of the storm, the squeak of the snow under his shoes as he started up the street.
Henderson.