{"text":"Patches don’t look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the holes in your soul, like when you patch a sock. When you have a hole in your soul, it’s because you’re hurting from something. I don’t know if you noticed, but that girl had a lot of holes.","author":"Nathan Reese Maher","tags":["abandoned","all-alone","alone","blackout","blankets","boogieman","books","bullies","bump-in-the-night","chapter-series","children-books","children-s-books","clubhouse","creatures","darkness","diversity","dolls","female-protagonists","fighting","flashlights","ghosts","ghouls","girl-power","hide-and-go-seek","hiding","horror","hula-hoop","hunting","jump-rope","kick-the-can","kids","lights-out","lost","monsters","night","no-adults","no-electricity","no-parents","no-rules","no-school","patches","post-apocalyptic","powerout","rebels","running","shelly-wunn","sok-market","stuffed-animals","superpowers","survival","terror","vampires"],"id":87730,"author_id":"Nathan+Reese+Maher"}