My Neighbor Asked to Use My Backyard for One Afternoon — The Next Morning, I Found a Massive Hole in the Yard and My Neighbor Had Disappeared

was there.”

His request sounded harmless.

More than harmless, really.

It sounded ordinary.

I imagined a folding table, a few lawn chairs, paper plates, and a birthday cake. I had no reason to think anything else would happen.

“All right,” I said. “Just keep people away from the flower beds.”

“Absolutely.”

“And no one goes inside my house.”

“Of course not.”

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