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Static on the Baby Monitor
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Twenty minutes later the monitor hisses again. Mara looks up. This time Theo is standing in the crib, both hands flat on the camera, his face pressed so close his eyes fill the whole screen. The speaker crackles with one clear word in his small voice: 'Outside.' Then she hears the back door unlock itself.
Mara runs to the back door and slams the bolt home before anything can open it. Through the glass, the yard is empty and still. She races upstairs to Theo. He's sound asleep, normal, safe. She carries him down to the couch and holds him until headlights swing into the driveway. His parents are home. She never sits for them again.
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