Chapter 19 of The White (READER BEWARE: This has some horror elements)

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Dennis heard them before he saw them. Two voices, low and clipped, like people afraid the hallway might be listening. That had become normal on The Res. Sound carried strangely here—through pine trunks, through frost, through the thin drywall of the community clinic where Alex and Zadie had set up their notebooks and borrowed microscopes. The whole bu…