Close Your Eyes

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The roller coaster loomed over the horizon, like the skeleton of some great prehistoric beast. The three, Gail, her boyfriend Mitch, and his best friend Tub, stood in the fractured shadows cast by the wooden frame. Mitch caught Gail’s hand, tugging her toward the line of people waiting to get on the ride.

“C’mon babe, I’ll be right there beside you,” Mitch said. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and squeezed her upper arm, not…