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Weekly Contest #286
Anyone’s home could be invaded. Yesterday, today, tomorrow, right now, or never. Why? Because they simply could. They came to me on a Thursday. For some reason, I had always thought they would come under the cover of darkness, cloaking themselves in shadows to amplify the fear they wanted to instill. But they didn’t. They knocked on my door at dawn. The quiet knock startled me awake—not loud or frantic, but deliberate, as though to signal their authority. I opened the door. I don’t like rumble. I had been sitting in the kitchen, watching the...
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