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The House Remembers Its Tenants

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Daniel turned on his phone flashlight and headed for the stairs. "It's just the house settling," he said, but his voice shook. Mara followed. At the top of the steps, the pacing stopped the second their feet hit the landing. Every door up there was shut. They didn't remember closing them.

They decided not to open anything else and went back downstairs. But the mattress was gone. In its place stood a made bed with an old quilt, turned down on both sides, as if someone had set it up for two guests they'd been expecting all along.

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