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Submitted to Contest #314
It was the middle of August, one of those heavy, heat-saturated nights when the air feels like soup and your own skin tries to stage a quiet rebellion. The kind of night where AC doesn’t do anything but run up the electric bill, sheets stick to your legs, and the term “Dog Days of Summer” feels less like a phrase and more like a diagnosis. It started with a scratching noise. Not the soft, polite kind of scratching, like a neighbor gently knocking on a door with a scone and a smile. No, this was the kind of scratching that screamed, "I have c...
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