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Static on the Baby Monitor
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Mara whips around. The hall is empty, but the bathroom door at the end now hangs wide open, light off. The footsteps came from there. On the monitor in her hand, the crib view shows Theo asleep and still. So if Theo is in bed, what just ran across the hall?
Mara walks to the bathroom and flips the light on. The mirror is fogged, like someone just took a hot shower. Written in the fog, low at a child's height, are the words: HE LET ME IN. She doesn't wait around. She grabs Theo from his crib, carries him outside, and waits on the cold porch for his parents. She never goes back in that house.
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