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Weekly Contest #372
THE SEVEN MINUTESDavid Tolly At 3:17 every morning, someone turned Clara Wren's bedroom doorknob. Not rattled it. Not shook it hard enough to wake the dead. Turned it. Slowly. The brass knob would rotate until the latch drew back with a small, polite click. Then the door would press inward against the chain Clara had installed on the fourth night. A pause would follow. Seven or eight seconds, usually. Long enough for whoever stood in the hallway to consider the chain. Then the pressure would ease. The latch would slide home. The knob would t...
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