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Whose Garden Grows at Midnight
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Nadia decides to keep watch that night. She tells her mum she's reading in bed, then climbs out the window and sneaks down to the allotments with a flashlight and a thermos of cocoa. She hides behind the compost bins and waits, eyes glued to the pumpkin.
Nadia waits an hour. Nothing. She starts to nod off behind the bins. Then a soft thump wakes her. The pumpkin is rolling, slow and steady, across the path. She rubs her eyes. She can't see anyone pushing it.
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Nadia creeps closer and sees the truth: a fat hedgehog is wedged inside a hole in the pumpkin's bottom, waddling along with the whole thing on its back. The 'thief' is an animal that moved in. Nadia laughs until her sides hurt.
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