Sunshine (60 page)

This was now my life: Cinnamon rolls, Sunshine's Eschatology, seeing in the dark, charms that burned into my flesh where I could not lose them. A special relationship with the Special Other Forces, where not everybody was on the same side. A landlady who's a wardskeeper. Untidy closets. Vampires.

Get used to it, Sunshine.

I came out of the closet wearing black jeans and a charcoal gray T-shirt I had always hated. And red sneakers. Hey, red turns gray in the dark faster than any other color.

He held out his hand. “Come then,” he said.

I went with him into the night.

About the Author

Robin McKinley has won various awards and citations for her writing, including the Newbery Medal for
The Hero and the Crown
, a Newbery Honor for
The Blue Sword
, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature for
Sunshine
. Her other books include the
New York Times
bestseller
Spindle's End
; two novel-length retellings of the fairy tale
Beauty and the Beast, Beauty
and
Rose Daughter
;
Deerskin
, another novel-length fairy-tale retelling, of Charles Perrault's
Donkeyskin
; and a retelling of the Robin Hood legend,
The Outlaws of Sherwood
. She lives with her husband, the English writer Peter Dickinson; three dogs (two hellhounds and one hellterror); an 1897 Steinway upright; and far too many rosebushes.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2003 by Robin McKinley

Cover design by Angela Goddard

ISBN: 978-1-4976-7371-7

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