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"We interrupt your regularly scheduled laments for Madeline to bring you this breaking news.

We're getting a report via etherphone from PainshipHe Never Called Back. Where are you? What have
you found?"

"We're on a world of wolf-creatures who turn into human beings once a month when the Earth is full in
the sky!

"No sign of Madeline!"

"Junior High Locker Room Shower Humiliation,come in please!"

"We're on a world where the machine is in the ghost!

"Madeline's not here!"

"My Life Has No Meaning and I Wish I Was Dead,are you reading me?"

"We're on a world where things are always exactly the way they seem!

"Can't find Madeline anywhere!"

"Keep looking, Painships! Keep looking as if our lives depended on it!"




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THOSE WHO WEAR DARKNESS LIKE LEDERHOSEN

What happened a few weeks ago is told here. The bonfires had been lit throughout thevillageofGoldstadt
,Florida , in dread of the ordeal that was to come. No protective grass and sand yet on the doorsteps of
the neat bungalows and mobile homesтАФthat would happen soon, before Those Who Wear Darkness
Like Lederhosen appeared. The darkness that would take their loved ones into an even higher darkness.

Lock the shutters and bar the doors and pray like a priest. Pray to anything that will listen. Pray until it
hurts.

Betty Ouspenskaya had no time for entreaties to the great undefined. She had sealed her daughter in the
hall closet of their mobile home with care in hopes that Those Who Wear Darkness Like Lederhosen
would soon be somewhere else. She wrestled a scotty plaid armchair from its spot where it looked out
upon the county dump, dragged it across the orange shag carpeting, and wedged it in the narrow hallway
right up against her only child's huddling place.

Then she put crosses on the doors and windows, garlic on the crosses, holy water she swiped from
Pastor Frank's baptismal font on the garlic.
Inside the closet, Maria fretted. She was worried that she would be fired if she didn't show up for her