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Sally opens her eyes at the kitchen table after one more shot of the moon, to let us know that it's still night out and that lunacy holds full sway. She screams as her eyes track up from a severed chicken head, an armadillo shell, a cow pelvis, finally to Grandpa, barely alive in his rocking chair. She screams, and it may as well be the scream that ends the world.