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Submitted to Contest #315
You pray to Santa Muerte on your thirteenth birthday, and good God (she might be the only one of those), what if it doesn’t take? Because your house is empty in the afternoons when you return to it. It’s so full of silt-scent and rememberings that you can scarcely dust the corners. You run your hand over kitchen counter tops and catch last night’s fracas in the cracks of your fingerprints. Something evil lives here, but thirteen is too old to relegate the shadow standing in your bedroom doorway to the underground things that mean to take you...
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