Mated To A Human
"Your age? Mom, you're not old."
She pets my head as I pass her. "Aren't you just my favorite thing ever? Thanks, Babe. Careful on the last step — remember it's shorter than the others."
I squat and lift the unsealed box, opening one of the cardboard flaps and peeking inside; some of the stuff is gone, some is still there. Mom turns her back and starts trimming the laminated pictures, so I take the box into the short hallway off the Society's back room where there's a hole in the floor for a questionably old staircase. The stairs lead underneath the building, into its basement. There aren't any windows on this side of the basement, but there's a switch for a singular lightbulb fastened to th
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