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Chapters (62)
  1. Cover
  2. Full Page Image
  3. Introduction
  4. Advance Praise for Reunion
  5. Dedication
  6. Map
  7. Quote
  8. Prologue
  9. All About Eric Weiss
  10. The Young Magician
  11. From the Wikipedia entry for Middleton:
  12. Where They Used to Live
  13. All About Carrie Keene
  14. The Girl Detective
  15. All About Alana Bright
  16. The Warrior Princess
  17. All About Daniel Sharp IV
  18. The Boy Genius
  19. I’ve Done My Part
  20. The Only Warrior Left
  21. The World Beneath the World
  22. Even Less Fun Now
  23. The Flawless Performance of Innumerable Lines of Code
  24. Like Time-Lapse Photography
  25. You Don’t Have to Go Home but You Can’t Stay Here
  26. This is Where She Gets It
  27. I Never Believed in Prophecies
  28. Normal People Stumble Along
  29. INTERLUDE: The Case of the Candy Cult
  30. That’s How Her Story Ought to Go
  31. Normal Is Whatever You Grow Up With
  32. Even Good Kids Have Their Limits
  33. INTERLUDE: The Menace of the Middleton Monster
  34. Alanis Morissette Irony or the Other Kind
  35. What You Want Is Not the Most Important Thing
  36. INTERLUDE: Trapped in the Goblin’s Lair
  37. The Slowest Person in the Room
  38. INTERLUDE: The Final Secret of Dr. Sax
  39. All Part of King Jeremy’s Land
  40. INTERLUDE: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  41. You Breathed It In, All the Time
  42. INTERLUDE: What Happened
  43. Danny Sharp Doesn’t Believe in Ghosts
  44. Ice and Bottles of Zima
  45. You Were Right All Along
  46. A Lot of Sacrificing to Do Tonight
  47. You Walked Right into It
  48. How Magic Works
  49. Was This Your Master Plan
  50. This Time, I Swear, We Can Do It Right
  51. You’d Think He Would Know Better
  52. Fresh Blood on Its Hands
  53. Any One of a Thousand Different Men
  54. The End of the World over There
  55. These Are Not Ideal Conditions
  56. Lightning and Thunder, Demons and Angels
  57. Into the Jaws of the Dragon
  58. Unafraid at Sunset
  59. Epilogue
  60. Acknowledgments
  61. About the Author
  62. Other Works by Christopher Farnsworth

They were as ready as they would ever be. There was no sense putting it off any longer. They opened the front door. For a moment, they paused and stood on the threshold.

The boy genius, the girl detective, the young magician, and the warrior princess.

The street was empty. The streetlights seemed to be clouded, muddled by some extra layer of darkness. The few remaining drifts of snow were dirty, almost black. A bitterly cold wind picked up, and they all shivered.

The End waited out there for them. They could feel it.

Despite everything they had been through, everything they’d already done in their lives, they were scared. None of them had to say it.

Carrie took Danny’s hand, and he let her. Eric and Alana tried not to look, but for them, this was shockingly public behavior, as if they’d started kissing and tearing each other’s clothes off right there.

For one wild moment, they all had the same idea. What if they went back inside? What if they pretended none of it was real? What would happen if they just stayed home?

Then a car went past, filled with some of their classmates, all dressed for the Party Like It’s 1999 Dance. They had the stereo up and the windows down. They didn’t notice the murk filling the air. One of them threw a bottle out the window and it smashed against the curb, which everyone inside the car seemed to find hilarious. The driver stomped on the gas, and they barely missed a mailbox as they roared out of the neighborhood.

It seemed even quieter once the car was gone.

Eric couldn’t take the silence anymore. “Alana, I hear Mike Fuller is still looking for a date. You could be underneath him in a couple of hours if you want.”

“At least I can get a date,” Alana said. “Your big Saturday night is a box of tissues and a bottle of lotion.”

Carrie rolled her eyes, dropped Danny’s hand. “Hey. Will and Grace. Are we doing this or what?”

They looked at one another, then sort of shrugged and shuffled their feet. Even Danny smiled. Because he knew, like they all did, that they didn’t really have a choice.

Eric closed the door behind them, and they walked out into the night.

Some kids got to go to dances and go to parties and make out and sneak their parents’ booze. Some kids got to stay home, where it was warm and safe. Some kids got to grow up.

While other kids went out to face the things that waited in the dark.

All About Eric Weiss

NAME: Eric Weiss

ALL ABOUT ME!

Answer the questions and tell us about yourself. Please write clearly.

1. Who is in your family?

Me, my mom, and my dad.

2. Do you have any pets? What are their names?

I used to have a goldfish, but it died.