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The Understudy Always Knows the Lines
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Mark 14 is stage left. I find a scratch in the floorboards shaped like an X. Under the X: a Polaroid. It's Lenore. But her eyes are wrong. Completely black.
In the background of the Polaroid I see the dressing room mirror. And in that mirror's reflection is another girl. That girl's holding a camera.
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There's an envelope behind the mirror. Dozens of Polaroids. Each one shows me in the dressing room. But I haven't taken any photos. And in the background of each one: that girl. Smiling.
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