Avon Fantasy Reader No. 9 — page 80: what you’re looking at

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<= be nice to be able to talk to them all the time and feel that cool softness; to dream forever. One night they came to her and there were more things than she had ever seen before. They hung through the window and in the air all over the room —they were so funny, some of them; you could see through them and some- times one was partly inside another. She knew she giggled in her sleep, but she couldn’t help it. Then she was quiet and listening to them. They told her it was all right. They would carry her away. Only she mustn’t tell anyone and she mustn’t be frightened; they would come for her soon. They couldn’t take her as she was, and she must be willing to change. © Avis said yes, and they all hummed a sort of music together, and went away. The next morning Avis was really and truly sick and didn’t want to get up. She could hardly breathe, she was so warm—and when Aunt May- brought in a tray she wouldn’t eat a bite. That night she didn’t dream. Her head ached, and she tossed all night long. But there was a moon out, so. the dreams couldn’t get through any- way. She knew they would come back when the moon was gone again, so she waited. Besides, she hurt so that she didn’t Sa care. She had to feel better before she was ready to go anywhere. The next day Dr. Clege came to see her. Dr. Clegg was a gocd friend of Aunt May’s and he was aiways visiting her because he was her guardian. ‘Dr. Clegg held her hand and asked her what seemed to be the matter with his young lady today? Avis was too smart to say anything, and besides there was a shiny thing iri her mouth. Dr. Clegg took it out and locked at it and shook his head. After a while he went away and then Aunt May and Uncle Roscoe came in. - They made her swallow some medicine that tasted just awful. By this time it was getting dark and there was a storm coming outside. Avis wasn’t able to talk much, and when they shut the round window she couldn’t ask them to please leave it open tonight because there was no moon and they were coming for her. But everything kept going round and round, and when Aunt May walked past the bed she seemed to fiatten out like a shadow, or one of the things, only she made a loud noise which was really the thunder outside and now she was sleeping really and truly even though she heard the thunder but the thunder wasn't real nothing was real except the things that was it nothing v was real any more but the things. And they came through the window it wasn’t closed after all because she opened it and she was crawling out high up there where she had never crawled before but it was easy without a body and soon she would have a new body they wanted the old one. because they carried it but she didn’t care because she didn’t need it and now they would cay her ulnage Yuggoth farnomi ilyaa . . That was. when Aunt Mary and Unclé Roscoe found her and pulled her 78 . comicbooks, conn |