the eyes were staring at me

“The eyeballs lay on the floor. I walked around them, catching their steady stare. The cats timidly moved out into the middle of the room and began to play with the eyes as if they were balls of thread. Their own pupils narrowed to slits from the light of the oil lamp. The cats rolled the eyes around, sniffed them, licked them, and passed them to one another gently with their padded paws. Now it seemed that the eyes were staring at me from every corner of the room, as though they had acquired a new life and motion of their own.”

Jerzy Kosinski, from The Painted Bird, 1965. Freaky, no? For a real kick, go ahead and reread it, and then type and proofread it!

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