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Submitted to Contest #41
New recruits often ask me, “What’s the scariest monster you’ve ever faced?” I’ve worked at the Paranormal Anomaly Department for over ten years, which is nine years longer than half of our recruits will last. These young men and women already have their preconceived notions of what we deal with. See, they think I’ll tell them about some horrific winged beast with razor sharp claws, or of a cult with dark magics bent on bringing about the apocalypse. “Sure”, I tell them, “I’ve come up against plenty of these, but none of them keep...
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