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The evening sun is gleaming through the glass door as it makes its slow descent to sunset, and the shopkeep takes a moment to soak in its rays, like a warm bath. The store smells of coffee beans and steamed milk and, faintly, cleaning products. The shopkeep flips the sign from ‘open’ to ‘closed’, but he doesn’t touch the lock just yet – he's still expecting one last guest. He turns around. The coffee shop is more like a bar – one long , dark, swirling wooden counter, with several stools comfortably spaced along the length. On the other side...
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My sleep was not a peaceful one. Images of vicious sights danced through my mind, walking up and down my memories and revisiting them with a cruel imagination. Youthful birthday parties became blood-soaked massacres. Graduations became graveyards. Moving out became running away. Through it all, was that man – that thing. Standing, far back: in the treeline of my childhood house, in a faraway window of my college campus, across the street from my parents home as I waved goodbye. Shadowy, distorted, inconsistent, but always there, like a...
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