My Sister Called at Midnight and Told Me to Hide in the Attic — What I Saw Through the Floorboards Changed Everything

the fox?” I asked.

“The lady,” he said. “She bought it at a store. It has a fluffy tail.”

I looked at Mara over his head.

“Ramirez,” she said. “Gas station, apparently. She said she owed him for waking him up.”

I looked at the fox. I looked at my son’s face, sleep-flushed and slightly confused and entirely, perfectly, unharmed.

“I like her,” I said.

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