Deadbolt: a horror short story
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Read between February 17 - February 17, 2025
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Some nights, when the pain flared or the memories of all she had loved and lost began to suffocate rather than soothe, she wondered what would happen if she left the doors unlatched. Left fate to take its course. If death awaited her, so be it.
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And if the visitor who darkened her doorstep each night at 10 o’clock sharp was indeed who he professed to be, then wouldn’t the reunion have been worth the risk?
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“We will be together again one day, sugar plum. I will never stop trying.
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Some things never changed. Because if they did, the whole world might unravel at the seams.
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there was still some magic buried deep in this old world, and if you did things just right, in just the precise order, you could touch it sometimes.
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Freezing a moment in time so she and her family could live within it forever.