Ignore The Voices In Your Head - Chapter Excerpt

A clear, masculine voice responded. It was the same voice from last night I heard laughing. The same pitch The same tone A nervous pain shot through my abdomen Who the hell was in my house? I stared anxiously down the hall towards my bedroom The door was partially cracked I couldn't remember if that was how I left it The bathroom door was shut Did I close it this morning?

I grabbed the biggest knife I saw from my kitchen cutlery set and went to investigate. I intentionally left the front door cracked; just in case I needed to run out fast. I didn't want to fidget with the doorknob. Cautiously, I searched my bedroom; prepared for some fiending drug addict to jump out at me. The closets and hideaways were clear. I opened the bathroom door; nothing.

"Great!" I was relieved But I was hearing things I chalked it up to an overactive imagination That was my reasoning That was how I would be able to get through the next hour the next day the next week without checking myself into Bellevue

I hurried to close my front door. I shut and locked my window as well. I didn't want that giant fur ball sneaking back in. I was hoping nobody got off the elevator and saw Mrs. Toombs' cat Flandy dead on my living room floor. That would be a huge headache I didn't need. I grabbed about five trash bags and a pair of work gloves I sometimes used whenever my trash can became extra nasty.

I didn't know how pet owners disposed of their dead pets in New York, but I was going to throw Flandy into the dumpster out back She wasn't my cat She wasn't my problem And that oversized fur ball that killed her didn't belong to me either But here I was in the middle of this weird God-knows-what-shit

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