It was a dangerous emotion for a staff member of the Parenthood to experience. They stood now in murky water upon Warren’s writing desk, equidistant between Gordon and Warren, as the writer received his weekly earful on how to write a book from a man who certainly didn’t know how. He’d ordered the carpenters to swap out the carpet, hang better pictures on the walls, renovate the storage rooms, realign the shelves, and muffle the boiler, repaint the doors, install a new toilet. Richard could do everything in his power to make the basement more comfortable for Warren, but in the end it would still be a basement. When curiosity grips two students-one from each school-their dictatorial institutions double down on secrets. The following is an exclusive excerpt from Inspection, the latest tale of gothic horror from Birdbox ’s Josh Malerman, in which the most precocious young girls and boys are segregated by gender into distinct and isolated schools on opposing ends of a vast forest, each unbeknownst of the other.
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