"Parick O'Leary - The Witch's hand" - читать интересную книгу автора (O'leary Patrick)

"Hanging on the bumperтАжdripping."

"Yeah, dripping. There's a lot of hand stories."

"My grandma knew a boy in Indiana who blew off his hand playing with fireworks."

"M-80?"

"Roman Candles. She was trying to scare me."

"Did you hear that?"

"What?"

"Shhhhh!"

A pause.

"I don't hear anything."

"Shuttup."

It was the quiet after you thought you heard something and that something was waiting for you to stop
listening.

"I heard something."
"It's your sister. She's trying to scare us."

"No. She's at Mom's."

They listened until they couldn't take the silence anymore.

"Was it another apple?"

Their host said, "Apple?"

"Yeah, an apple. Falling through the leaves and landing on the ground. Like before."

"Who said anything about apples?"

"You did."

"No, I didn't," Jimmy said.

"Well, somebody did. It's the only logical, you know."

The knight's son said, "It would be logical if I had an apple tree."

They laughed then, as if they'd been waiting to laugh for a long, long time. "What do you mean? We