A self-absorbed writer is startled out of her complacency by the death of a neighbour and her child. From Halli Villegas' s The Hair Wreath and Other Stories, this tale is part of a short fiction collection about the disconnect amongst people and the places they inhabit-- the gap that allows the supernatural to flourish.

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