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You Try To Go Out Of The Fear By Going Into It...

She looked around… No one was in sight. It had been like this for several long and weary years, but still her mind didn’t believe it. She huddled back into the damp, cold and lifeless corner of the room and seemed to wait for what seemed to be a lifetime.

For days on end she didn’t move, eat and definitely didn’t sleep. The fear of moving had overpowered her, gripping her slender, frail body and it wasn’t going to surrender easily. The fear of it being there ran through her mind. She knew that if she moved at this moment it would devour her entirely.

The silence in this old, lonely house made the atmosphere feel like a library, with not a whisper to be heard. This was until… bring, bring. The phone rang, its presence unwanted, unnecessary, the frighted women thought. It’s almost li...

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