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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 ran upstairs and told Dad about the eye. He went down to prove me wrong. He was gone a long time. When he came back up, he was calm and smiling, but his eyes were wet and huge and never quite blinked in time. "Nothing down there," he said. "Nothing at all." He'd been my dad this morning.
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