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Submitted to Contest #119
The first time she heard the noise, it was 3:18 in the morning. She’d been awake, sweating under the too-warm duvet until around three, and had just sunk into the first few moments of heavy welcome sleep, when the sound came down from the ceiling and torpedoed the early stages of her REM cycle. Maureeeeeeen. A man’s voice, shaky and thin, yet piercingly loud.Maureeeeen! Maureeeeeeeen! Who the hell was Maureen? She’d met their upstairs neighbor, an older woman named Barbara with a severe silver bob and a hairless cat. Barbara s...
Submitted to Contest #65
No one knew exactly how the rumor had started. It may have been her appearance; pale skin, red lips, dark eyes sunken into deep sockets. It may have been her choice of location; the house at the end of the cul-de-sac had been uninhabited for as long as I had been alive. The lawn was badly overgrown, the roof was missing shingles, and the paint was cracked. Or it may have simply been her timing; the moving truck pulled up, unannounced, at the beginning of October. The air had turned raw and biting, and the days were dark. Our mothers peered o...
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