Seth Adams - If You Go Down to the Woods - The most powerful and emotional debut thriller of 2018!

I knew my lie for what it was as soon as I said it, and the silence that followed told me Bobby did as well. I turned, cursing myself for not knowing when to shut up.

I looked back over the forest we’d just left.

Remembering the light that had caught my attention in the first place, I scanned the woods for it. Nothing. As before, all the trees seemed one endless growth, no one distinguishable from the rest. Could it have just been the stream water, catching the sunlight in a million little diamond pinpoints?

I didn’t think so. The reflected light had seemed farther out than where I placed myself to have stopped near the stream.

I wanted to ask Fat Bobby about it, turned to him to do so, and saw a shadow of the earlier sadness and hurt still on his face. A better idea came to me. One that made me feel less shitty as a person and a friend.

“You like comics?” I asked.

Fat Bobby looked at me like I’d spoken some alien language.

“I’ve never really read them.”

“My dad runs a bookstore,” I said. “Come on, I’ll show you some things.”

Down the hill, north, we started out, the world stretched out before us in shades of bleached desert-white and earthen browns. Walking along the highway, a dog and two boys, friends, taking the road to where it took us.

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