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The Tenants Below the Frost Line
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I followed the tapping down to the concrete floor with a flashlight. The sound came from a thin crack in the middle, wide as a finger. I knelt and shined the light in. An eye, huge and wet, was pressed against the crack, looking right back up at me. Then it blinked.
I jammed concrete patch into the crack and sealed the eye away. For a week it was quiet. Then I noticed the crack had reopened somewhere new, in my bedroom floor, right under my pillow. It had simply come up to a higher floor to be closer to me. The patient eye was back, and it had missed me.
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