Intrusion

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A woman’s silhouette, her features obscured by the darkness, moved outside the window – her presence impossible, for she had died ten years ago.

He sat up in bed, disturbed by this strangely unwarranted intrusion. He looked around for unusual signals, but there were none.

Yet, he could not gather the courage to get up and open the window before daybreak.

The world seemed to shatter in the morning light as he read the cryptic message scrawled on the mirror in a bold, red lip crayon – “Do you think she is dead because you killed her?”

Whose lip crayon was this, as it was a bachelor’s pad where women had not entered for quite some time?

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