Miranda G

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“The Red Button” by Miranda G

Submitted to Contest #62

“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep…” The childish voice drifts towards me through the still air, sending a shiver down my spine. I spot the source a few rows over, a family knelt together in prayer next to a child-sized pod, their young daughter reciting the words from memory as she presumably would on any given night before climbing into bed. But this isn’t just any night, is it? And that’s certainly not her normal bed. “If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” The pyjama-clad girl finishe...

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