title: The Book of Small
author:  Emily Carr 
description: "<b>Carr</b> is a magical wordsmith whose gorgeous prose reflects a desire for simplicity even as it sensually mirrors life in its teeming complexity." (<i>Publishers Weekly</i>)<br /><br />"When <b>Emily Carr</b> decides in her sixties to look back upon her life it is her pleasure to create a wonderful big stamp album of wild places, strange pets, difficult characters, curious modes of transport and the like." (<i>Hungry Mind Review</i>)
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  Emily Calby Book 1
  
  
  THE  
  
  
  HIDING  
  
  
  GIRL
  
  
  **Dorian Box**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE HIDING GIRL
  
  
  Copyright 2020 by Dorian Box.
  
  
  All rights reserved. Subject to the fair use exception of Section 107 of the
  U.S. Copyright Act, reproduction of this publication by any means, in any
  format, in whole or in part, is prohibited without written permission from the
  author.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. All characters and events are products of the
  author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real persons or events is purely
  coincidental.
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1-7346399-1-9
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _To the people in our lives who make us feel like Emily, a scared child who
  will survive._
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.  
  —Lewis Carroll, _Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Before
  
  
  **TWO MEN.** I noticed them when I was unloading groceries from the F-150,
  handing the heavy bags to my little sister and daydreaming about the end of
  the sixth grade. They got out of a bl