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The Tenants Below the Frost Line
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I taped a baby monitor to the floor and listened from my room. The tapping turned into a voice, soft and friendly. "Come down before the others wake," it said. "I saved a spot just for you. The lowest one. The best one." It knew my name. It used my mom's voice.
I ripped the monitor off the floor and threw it down the stairs. It clattered into the dark, and the voice laughed, delighted, getting fainter. "You'll come anyway," it called. "They always come." I told my whole family the next morning. We packed the car by noon and left Hollow Marsh for good, but I still count my steps everywhere I go.
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