His ghosts were all women. They ran through his dreams interchangeably. The decomp off Route126. The waitress in the marina. The teenager stunned mute by rape and blunt force trauma.
Dream logic distorted the details. Victims moved between crime scenes and displayed conflicting signs of death. They came to life sometimes. They looked older or younger or just like they did when they fell.
My Dark Places
James Ellroy
1996
Geneva Hilliker- Ellroy's Mother
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