![]() ![]() Time feels slippery, and I wondered if she wasn’t pregnant at all, just hallucinating in the complete dark. What readers quickly realize is that Sally Ann is newly pregnant, though it seems as if she’s very pregnant in quick order. Is Michael simply a safety-first man? Was the door always open? Because it being open did not signal to him someone had gone down! Just as she sees the light to get out, she hears Michael close and lock the door, claiming no future child of his will get lost down there. ![]() In complete darkness, she is quickly lost in the seemingly unending caves and tunnels. She’s heard it used to be a hiding place for slaves, and down she goes. Playing a bit of a game one day, she sneaks around the field while he’s working to investigate an odd door that leads into the ground. Sally Ann is a teen newlywed blushing with her physical attraction to her husband, a young farmer named Michael. The first, “When Darkness Loves Us,” is a longer short story. Published in 1985, Engstrom’s book includes two tales of horror. ![]()
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