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What the Hospice Cat Knows

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I carry Marrow into the empty break room and shut him in. For a few minutes the hall feels normal again. Then I hear scratching. Not at the break room door behind me. At the door of Room 14, from the inside.

I open Room 14. Mr. Avery's bed is empty. The scratching is coming from under the sheets, which are moving on their own. I pull them back. There's Marrow, somehow already inside, curled exactly where the man should be. The break room down the hall is silent now. Whatever I locked in there, it was never the cat.

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