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(Disclaimer: this short story contains suggestions of stalking and home invasion. It is written in screenplay format. The love story behind this encounter remains a mystery.) INT. BEDROOM - DAY GIRL is asleep in a double bed. She lies on her stomach. Her legs and arms sprawled out around her. The dark covers are messy. Her mouth is pushed open against the pillow. A fan stands on the floor by the bed. It rotates. The remnants of stains pattern the cream full-floor carpeting. Sunlight leaks through the curtains. The curtains flutte...
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The ageing girl would often be overcome with bouts of zoomies. The kind left a trail of broken furniture, cushions scattered, and neighbours confused. Despite the growth on the side of her foot slowing her charges to a hop-along, nothing could stop her from a great, long, leisurely sniff around the neighbourhood. Why would it? She had survived surgery to remove the previous growth on her shoulder (about the size of a golf ball when it started bleeding) and had not once shown any signs of feeling poorly. In fact, the zoomies got even better...
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