Body Double
Submitted to the "Micro Fiction Challenge"
My father told me this story of when he was ten.
He and his brother shared bunk-beds in his parents old house. My father awoke one night in the top bunk hearing strange noises coming from the closet. He saw his brother sitting and tossing clothes... and speaking stranging to himself.
"What are you doing?! Dad asked.
The figure slowly turned, smiled creepily, then continued.
Peering below, his brother was still in bed asleep...
Terrified, he forced his body down the space along the wall to his brother. Fear paralyzed them all night long.
Clothes were scattered the next morning.
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