Datlow, Ellen (ed) - When Things Get Dark / Датлоу, Эллен (ред) - Когда все мрачно [2021, epub, ENG]

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THE mistake must have been, the child woke too soon from her afternoon nap. Really she knew better, for she’d been scolded previously for waking too early, and interfering with her mother’s schedule. And now, coming downstairs unexpectedly, in her fuzzy pink slipper socks, she hears her mother on the phone: “No, it is not postpartum bullshit. It isn’t physical at all. It isn’t mental. It isn’t genetic, and it isn’t me. It’s her.” The voice on the other end of the line must have expressed surprise, doubt, or incredulity, provoking the mother to speak vehemently: “It’s her. She’s defective. She’s perverse. She hides it—whatever she is.” Another pause. “You can’t see it. Her father can’t see it. But I see it.” . . .