The Order of Odd-Fish (40 page)

Later that night, after everyone else had gone to sleep and the lodge was silent, Jo would quietly slip out of bed and wander around the empty halls of the lodge, alone. She would creak down the stairs to the basement and Aunt Lily’s old workroom, where the torn-up machines were already gathering dust, never to be tinkered with again; she would wander up to Aunt Lily’s old bedroom and stand on the balcony, looking out over the city; she would climb up to the roof, where she had clung to Aunt Lily as the lodge was carried into Eldritch City and Aunt Lily first looked at the city and said to herself, “I’m finally home. We’re home.”

Jo spun into Ian’s arms, laughing; they looked at each other, and Jo spun back into the dancing. It was true. She was home.

J
AMES
K
ENNEDY
lives in Chicago.
The Order of Odd-Fish
is his first novel.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by James Kennedy

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