flag, California flag, bathed in fluorescent green.

Woodpanel walls stained dark where accused rest heads. There mirrors scratched by gangs and drunk hearts. Shnorhk give courtroom another once around. Whereas the Armenian cabbie’s voice reflects his broken English: So there’s a whole array of pine needles and forest stuff that’s coming, and yet we are still kind of talking about the same thing.” And already there’s this weird kind of layering where I realize I should talk more about the metaphor of rain which is so important in Volume 1, and yet I am in the forest. Or, to put it as Danielewski does: “It’s a very bizarre conversation we’re having because, in some way, you’re talking to me about Volume 1, and I’m talking to you about Volume 2. An enigmatic billionaire enlists the help of a poverty-stricken recovering drug addict. A pair of scientists hides out from an ambiguously malicious organization. A young gang member heads out on an assignment. A little girl barrels into the torrent to save a hurt cat.

Despite the downpour, though, the world positively bustles. Outside the forest, where I am, it’s raining. Though the forest comes from his own imagination, it seems to act independently, as if attempting to enfold him in its many layers. Tired and a bit tense, he navigates through the prickly pine needles and the rustling leaves, mining the tugging roots and the looming canopy for the connections only his mind sees. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story - of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.Mark Z. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth - musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies - the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet.

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