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Submitted to Contest #92
There’s that moment of space just beyond your sight. It’s the movement you perceive from the corner of your eye. It’s the faintest thump in an empty room. It is that thing you know is there even though there is absolutely nothing there. That thing lived in the Creekside farmhouse where I grew up. The house was old. It was built before anyone knew to keep records. The earliest references were pre-civil war but no one really knew its origins. It was long and stone and heavy. It gave the impression that it was never built but creeped out of th...
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