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Vampires, Ghosts, Werewolves, Zombies, Serial Killers, so boring, passé and overused.

It is when Doors started to betray us, leading us to the wrong rooms, wrong homes, wrong continents, that we learned what true horror was.

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As I locked up the store to go home I heard the faint sounds of crying coming from the garbage can by the front door.

“I do not have time for this,” I told myself as I put in my earbuds and started my walk home.

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My son’s daycare uses a secure fingerprint reader for checking children in and out of the facility and tracking who it is.

So why does mine say I picked him up thirty minutes ago when I was still at work?

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General, we’ve located where the runaway slaves have been hiding and are en route for interception now.

It’s the planet called Earth, in the Sol system, and there’s nine billion so you will need to send an extra transport ship to accommodate as many as we can.

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I told my son if he held the shell up to his ear he could hear the ocean.

I couldn’t know it would have a blue-ringed octopus living in it.