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“Something Like Living Things” by John Langan

Posted on January 27, 2022

Three girls are attempting divination with a deck of playing cards; their mother appears with a different method of seeing the future.

Another story from “When Things Get Dark,” this is a brief sketch that leaves quite a bit of room for dark speculation: who are these girls and their parents from “the old country”? What do the visions from the Book of Revelations portend? What (or whose?) entrails are being offered for a glimpse of the future?

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