Beneath The Surface: A Family's Secret

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s just the maid, my younger brother Kev

hrough his fleeting athletic glorie

to the Nevada desert, Kevin's latest TikTok

dlife, the missing hikers, but my moth

darkness fell, a chilling tap on my window t

shattered the glass, its

he beast; it was the cold ca

en pushed me out of the car

nd my last sight was their taillights spee

d I died knowing they abandon

ing pain, the animal' s hot breath, but most of

wn mother make such a consciou

they needed to eliminate, the

r smell of bleach

anding in the laundry room, Ke

rd block settling in my chest wasn't so

. This time,