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3 True Wendy's Horror Stories That Will Change Your Fast-Food Experience · True Horror Stories

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  Speaker 1: It was my first day in Western Hill Medical Care,
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  Speaker 1: and I drove up the mountain, reaching minutes before dawn.
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  Speaker 1: The hospital looked like it had seen it all. The
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  Speaker 1: head nurse showed me around and brief me on my responsibilities.
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  Speaker 1: She was showing me the different wards when another caregiver
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  Speaker 1: came rushing. He looked young but very frightened. Catching his
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  Speaker 1: panting breath, he told the head nurse about some patient
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  Speaker 1: who had just had an episode of incontinence. The head
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  Speaker 1: nurse asked the name of the patient, and the minute
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  Speaker 1: the caregiver uttered her name, I could see lines forming
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  Speaker 1: on her forehead. Both of them discussed for a minute,
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  Speaker 1: who will attend to this patient because the one who
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  Speaker 1: takes care of her is on leave. Thinking it was
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  Speaker 1: my chance to shine on the very first day, I
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  Speaker 1: recommended myself. Are you sure, the head nurse asked me.
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  Speaker 1: I chuckled, as if it was a very silly question.
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  Speaker 1: I've had training on attending old and disabled patients, so
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  Speaker 1: i know what I'm doing. The head nurse gestured for
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  Speaker 1: the caregiver to take me to the patient so I
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  Speaker 1: could give her a bath and a change of clothes.
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  Speaker 1: As I started to follow, the caregiver. The head nurse
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  Speaker 1: called out to me and warned me. She told me
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  Speaker 1: to be careful on our way to the patient's room.
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  Speaker 1: I casually asked the caregiver about her, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: the patient is a bit weird. A normal day, she
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  Speaker 1: keeps to herself, but sometimes she can get violent, which
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  Speaker 1: is why they always keep her physically restrained.
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  Speaker 2: She has been through a lot. Her abusive husband tortured
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  Speaker 2: her for years until one day he came back home
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  Speaker 2: drunk and beat her badly, and then he killed himself too.
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  Speaker 2: If you ask me, she's way better here than she
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  Speaker 2: was with him.
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  Speaker 1: The caregiver exhaled, and I realized things are about to
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  Speaker 1: get pretty serious around here. We stopped outside a small room.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the room, I could see a bed with its
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  Speaker 1: white sheets covered in fecal matter. A smell of urine
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  Speaker 1: waste and perspiration hit my nostrils right away, and I
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  Speaker 1: covered my nose muttering. Got some strong spell. On the
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  Speaker 1: bed sat this frail, average height woman with her hands
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  Speaker 1: tied to her body. She had long, stringy gray hair
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  Speaker 1: and an expressionless face. Her eyes were wide like a
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  Speaker 1: night owl.
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  Speaker 2: Dorothy, this is Lynchin. She's going to help you. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: can you promise me you'll cooperate?
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy nodded her head up and down, then shifted her
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  Speaker 1: gaze towards me. She didn't speak, didn't blink. The caregiver
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  Speaker 1: pulled out this wheelchair and I placed a towel on it. Together,
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  Speaker 1: we helped Dorothy get down from the bed and take
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  Speaker 1: a sit on the chair. I was instructed to unlock
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  Speaker 1: her handcuffs only during the shower. Once done, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: wait a second to put her back in restraints. I've
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  Speaker 1: dealt with violent patience in the past, so I was
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  Speaker 1: confident I would handle it. Also, Dorothy was very skinny,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm stronger than her in every aspect. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: the caregiver leave to attain other duties. When I looked down,
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  Speaker 1: my eyes met with Dorothy's. She was staring at me.
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  Speaker 1: I gave an awkward smile and took her to the
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  Speaker 1: shower room. I turned on the warm water and began
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  Speaker 1: gently rinsing her arms.
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  Speaker 2: You'll feel better after this, Dorothy, nice and clean?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, no answer. Her eyes were open, but empty, like
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  Speaker 1: windows with no curtains, just darkness behind them. I knelt
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  Speaker 1: to rinse her leg when Dorothy whispered, it's still insideer.
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  Speaker 1: I looked up, confused, What did you say? I asked.
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  Speaker 1: She tilted her head at an unnatural angle, her wet
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  Speaker 1: hair clinging to her face. It helped me a.
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  Speaker 2: Slice his throat in one bow.
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  Speaker 3: She murmured, do you know how people bleed when their
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  Speaker 3: veins are cut?
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  Speaker 1: I took a cautious step back, my heart picking up pace. Dorothy,
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  Speaker 1: are you all right? She smiled, blinking her eyes like
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  Speaker 1: a robot. But it wasn't a smile of relief. It
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  Speaker 1: was something sinister.
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  Speaker 3: If I had it with me, I would have cut
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  Speaker 3: you all open.
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  Speaker 1: The lights above flickered, My breath caught in my throat.
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  Speaker 1: The bathroom had no windows, just a single fluorescent light overhead.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're done here. Then she started screaming. She
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  Speaker 1: thrashed in the chair, shaking the handles violently, her face
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  Speaker 1: twisted with pure rage. Her screams were blood curdling. I
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  Speaker 1: frozen shock. The caregiver came rushing in, but those five
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  Speaker 1: minutes felt like forever. Dorothy was sedated and taken back
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  Speaker 1: to her room. Later, the caregiver tried to console me.
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  Speaker 1: He said, it happens at patients sometimes lash out, but
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  Speaker 1: when I told him what Dorothy said, he went pale.
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  Speaker 1: I asked what was wrong, and that's when he told me.
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  Speaker 1: The murder weapon was never found, but based on the clean,
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  Speaker 1: deep cut in her husband's neck, authorities believed it was
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  Speaker 1: a scalpel, something swift and sharp. It's been months now
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  Speaker 1: and I still work here, but ever since that day,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't slept the same because part of me wonders
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  Speaker 1: set weapons still hidden somewhere inside some walls, because I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Dorothy's lying, do you. I felt it before
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  Speaker 1: the elevator even reached the thirty seventh floor, A tight
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  Speaker 1: twisting knot just under my ribs, probably just first day jitters,
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  Speaker 1: new job, new city, knew everything, But the second those
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  Speaker 1: elevator doors slid open, I knew I'd made a mistake.
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  Speaker 1: She was the first thing I saw, sitting at reception,
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  Speaker 1: clicking those bloodbred nails against her keyboard like she'd been
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  Speaker 1: waiting for me. Vanessa Miller. Our eyes locked. She smiled
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  Speaker 1: that same slow, devious smirk she flashed me the night
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  Speaker 1: I told her it was over, right before she picked
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  Speaker 1: up a kitchen knife and whispered that one of us
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  Speaker 1: was about to bleed. What are you doing here? I choked.
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  Speaker 1: She tilted her head playful and giggled, I work.
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  Speaker 3: Here, silly, isn't it crazy?
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  Speaker 1: I forced myself to keep walking past her, past the
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  Speaker 1: weight in my chest. People work with their exes all
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  Speaker 1: the time, even the unhinged ones. A thick stack of
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  Speaker 1: presentations was already waiting at my desk, along with the
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  Speaker 1: instruction notes, million dollar recounts due by end of day.
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  Speaker 1: Don't screw it up. I threw myself into the work
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. I even forgot she was
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  Speaker 1: out there watching. It might have been eleven o'clock when
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  Speaker 1: I stepped away for a tea break. Ten minutes tops.
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  Speaker 1: When I got back, every file on my system was corrupted.
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  Speaker 1: I stared at the screen like maybe I was dreaming.
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  Speaker 1: Tried rebooting, reopening, recovering nothing. By noon, the phones were
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  Speaker 1: ringing off the hook, Clients were screaming. Greg's voice came
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  Speaker 1: through my headset tight with anger. My office now every
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  Speaker 1: woman in the department received explicit messages from your email,
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  Speaker 1: mister Raynolds, he said, sliding printouts across the desk. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't write these, I pleaded. It's Vanessa, she's my ex.
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  Speaker 1: Greg was frantic, You've been here six hours and created
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  Speaker 1: nothing but problems. Fix everything you've broken before leaving tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if you stay all night. As I
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  Speaker 1: left his office, I swear i'd heard a giggle slumped shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: I buried myself back in work, pretending everything had already
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  Speaker 1: gone to hell. By seven, the office was empty, just me,
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  Speaker 1: my monitor's cold glow, and that thick kind of silence
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  Speaker 1: wherever keyboard click sounds like a gunshot. I was digging
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  Speaker 1: through my email settings when the lights flickered before it
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  Speaker 1: went out totally, not just at my desk, the whole floor,
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  Speaker 1: even the emergency exit signs blinked out like dying embers.
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  Speaker 1: Then a dim glow flickered to life in a corner.
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  Speaker 1: I froze. It was a flashlight, not mine, and right
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  Speaker 1: there on the inside of the glass wall was smeared
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  Speaker 1: and wet red A question she had always asked me,
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  Speaker 1: you promise you love me, baby. My breath caught, My
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  Speaker 1: heart pounded so hard I felt it in my teeth.
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  Speaker 1: She'd been right here waiting. I spun around, grabbed my bag,
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  Speaker 1: and bolted for the elevators. Debt, tried the stairwell locked,
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  Speaker 1: Every goddamn exit was sealed. I was contemplating my next
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  Speaker 1: move when from the dark, her voice floated out, sings
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  Speaker 1: songs soft.
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  Speaker 3: Remember our first note together, you said we'll be together forever.
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  Speaker 1: Such a liar, Ethan. I dropped behind a row of cubicles,
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  Speaker 1: trying to quiet my breath. My hand landed on something solid,
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  Speaker 1: a stapler, not ideal, but heavy enough. You know what's funny?
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  Speaker 1: She was close.
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  Speaker 3: I got you this job, saw your resume, told the
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  Speaker 3: director how brilliant you were.
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  Speaker 2: I handpicked this office for us.
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  Speaker 1: A beam of light swept the floor. I crawled, elbows
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  Speaker 1: and knees burning as I moved away from the voice.
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  Speaker 3: You think blocking my number would stop me. I watched
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  Speaker 3: you for three years, Ethan. You're linked in your socials.
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  Speaker 3: Your sweet mom still likes my comments.
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  Speaker 1: I made it to the break room, grabbed the heaviest
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  Speaker 1: thing I could find, metal thermis. Just as the flashlight
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  Speaker 1: swung toward me, she laughed that same brittle, high pitched
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  Speaker 1: laugh that used to echo through my apartment walls when
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  Speaker 1: I ignored her calls that she'd still show up. You're crazy,
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  Speaker 1: I shivered, No, she spat.
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  Speaker 3: Crazy was when I waited outside your building for six days.
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  Speaker 1: Straight, just to see your face? This is love? The
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  Speaker 1: beam found me there she was in the doorway. Fox
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  Speaker 1: cut her in one hand the flashlight and the other.
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  Speaker 1: Blood Red lips parted sinfully.
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  Speaker 2: I've been planning this for months.
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  Speaker 1: She whispered, stepping closer.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know how hard it is to hack into
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  Speaker 3: a building security?
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  Speaker 1: The things we do for love, right? I hurled the
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  Speaker 1: stapler at her face and barreled past her, slamming her
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  Speaker 1: into the wall. She didn't cry out, she laughed, giddy,
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  Speaker 1: like she was proud of me. I ran blindly and
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  Speaker 1: landed in the conference room. The fire escape was just
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  Speaker 1: across the gap, but the glass wouldn't budge. I grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a chair, smashing it again and again, so the window
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  Speaker 1: exploded outward. Cold air rushed in. City lights blurred through
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  Speaker 1: my stinging eyes. Behind me, the footsteps hastened.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you gonna go? Ethan?
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  Speaker 1: She stood at the broken window, blood dripping from her temple.
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  Speaker 1: She wiped it and licked.
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  Speaker 3: It's the thirty seventh floor. Drop, you jump, you die,
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  Speaker 3: you stay. We topped this out.
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  Speaker 1: I backed up to the edge, legs swinging out. This
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  Speaker 1: isn't talking, this is fucking insane. You're married. You made
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  Speaker 1: me mad. She shrieked and lunged. I didn't decide to jump,
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  Speaker 1: my body did. One second I was at the window,
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  Speaker 1: The next I was flying. The gap was so much
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  Speaker 1: wider than I remembered. I hit the fire escape hard,
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  Speaker 1: steel grated against my palms. My leg screamed, something tore,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't care. I was alive. I passed out
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  Speaker 1: seconds later, and when I woke up. Next I was
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  Speaker 1: in the hospital and Vanessa was locked up. The security
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  Speaker 1: had heard the crash and stepped in. They arrested her immediately,
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  Speaker 1: breaking hacking, assault, attempted murder. The charges were inescapable. My
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  Speaker 1: boss apologized, begging me not to sue the organization and
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  Speaker 1: promised he'd take care of the hospital expenses that I
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  Speaker 1: had quit. Anyway, it was my first day at LUX,
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  Speaker 1: and I was assigned the storage room duty. Nobody lasts
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  Speaker 1: long down there. Grayson mumbled, handing me the clipboard and
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  Speaker 1: never once looking me in the eye. Something about those
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  Speaker 1: mannequins freaked people out, and soon I'd know why. The
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  Speaker 1: storage room was a nightmare, this massive space with lights
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  Speaker 1: that kept flickering shelves stretched into narrow aisle that seemed
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  Speaker 1: to go on forever, and scattered upon them where the
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  Speaker 1: mannikins everywhere, standing in corners, hanging from metal hooks, or
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  Speaker 1: just body parts thrown into bins waiting to be put together.
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  Speaker 1: Just sort them by gender and then by size, Grayson said,
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  Speaker 1: already backing away toward the stairs and dry finishing before dark.
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  Speaker 1: Then he added, oh, and ignore anywhere noises, old building
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  Speaker 1: and all the doors slam shut, And I swear it
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  Speaker 1: sounded like someone laughing at me. For the first hour,
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  Speaker 1: I sorted mannikins into sections, trying to ignore how the
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  Speaker 1: faces seemed to track my movement. The stores playlist booming
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  Speaker 1: overhead only made the silence between songs creepier than I
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: heard it tapping from somewhere deep in the room, like
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  Speaker 1: fingernails on metal, tap, tap tap. I stopped holding a
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  Speaker 1: mannequin torso awkwardly in my arms. Hello. My voice cracked
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  Speaker 1: as it echoed faintly in the space. I peered around,
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  Speaker 1: listening to my heart beat in my ears, dead silence.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some rats scurried behind the shelves, But then when
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  Speaker 1: I saw made my heart drop a mannequin, a male
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  Speaker 1: one with the unsettingly realistic face, glared at me from
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  Speaker 1: the end of the aisle. I knew i'd left it
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  Speaker 1: in the men's section. I remembered the exact spot, and
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  Speaker 1: yet there it was, lurking quietly, as if waiting to pounce.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty sure I moved you already, I muttered, grabbing its shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I noticed the eyes. They changed. Before they
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  Speaker 1: were just flat painted eyes. Now they looked deep. Don't
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  Speaker 1: spook yourself, moron, I scoffed at myself. I picked it
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  Speaker 1: up again, avoiding those eyes, and hauled it back to
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  Speaker 1: the men's section. By late afternoon, I was totally on edge.
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  Speaker 1: I'd found mannequins in places I definitely hadn't left them,
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  Speaker 1: A female one with a cracked face by the elevator,
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  Speaker 1: a child sized one sitting on a shelf I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even reach with the the ladder. Each time I found one,
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  Speaker 1: my hands shook worse putting it back. During my break,
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  Speaker 1: I called up the stairs, mister Grayson, I think someone
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  Speaker 1: else is down here, he appeared, looking tense. Nobody else
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  Speaker 1: except you as access today, Alex. But the Minnikans are
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: exactly where they've always been, he cut me off. It's
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  Speaker 1: just the light playing tricks on you. Something in his
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  Speaker 1: voice made me pause. He knew whatever was happening. He knew.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: As closing time hit, the lights dimmed and I rushed
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  Speaker 1: to finish, desperate to leave. Then all the lights went out,
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  Speaker 1: total darkness, not even emergency lights. I grabbed my phone,
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  Speaker 1: turning on the flashlight with trembling fingers. The beam hit
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  Speaker 1: a mannekin standing directly in front of me, the one
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  Speaker 1: with the glass eyes. I swung my light around. More
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  Speaker 1: Mannikins surrounded me, now at least a dozen arranged in
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  Speaker 1: a circle, all facing me. This isn't funny, I yelled,
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  Speaker 1: my voice breaking mister Grayson. No answer. The store was closed.
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  Speaker 1: I was alone, or that's what I wanted to believe.
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  Speaker 1: I tried the freight elevator dead the stairs. Then i'd
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  Speaker 1: get out through the stairs. The beam of my flashlight
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  Speaker 1: revealed the path was blocked. Mannikin stood shoulder to shoulder
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  Speaker 1: before the door, their blank faces somehow accusatory in the
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  Speaker 1: harsh light. They only move when you're not looking. The
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  Speaker 1: realization hit me like a physical blow. Every time I'd
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  Speaker 1: turned away, blinked looked elsewhere. They'd move closer. My phone
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  Speaker 1: battery flashed a warning, ten percent remaining. I backed against
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  Speaker 1: a concrete pillar, moving my light constantly, trying to watch
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  Speaker 1: all of them at once, an impossible task. What do
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  Speaker 1: you want? I whispered, by light flickered, dimming momentarily. In
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  Speaker 1: that split second, the mannikin with glass eyes moved just
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  Speaker 1: twitch of its head, angling slightly to the left, toward
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  Speaker 1: the far corner of the room, where a human shaped
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  Speaker 1: shadow stood. That wasn't a mannequin at all. He was
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  Speaker 1: mister Grayson. I'm sorry, Alex, he said, stepping forward. They
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  Speaker 1: need someone new, they always do. What are you talking about?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: My voice was barely audible. They let me go after
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I gave him you. His laugh was hollow. That was
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: our agreement, twenty years down here, watching over them, and
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  Speaker 1: they finally chose a replacement. You're insane, I whispered. But
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  Speaker 1: even as I said it, I saw his eyes glassy, reflective,
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  Speaker 1: like marbles embedded in flesh. My phone died with a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: pathetic beam, plunging us into absolute darkness. I felt it immediately.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Movement all around me, the soft scrape of plastic limbs
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  Speaker 1: against concrete the whisper of mannequin hands reaching out. Don't
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  Speaker 1: fight it, mister Grayson's voice drifted from somewhere in the darkness.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't hurt, not really, You just become like them, silent, watching,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the next person. Something cold brushed against my cheek,
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  Speaker 1: plastic fingers gently exploring, I ran, blindly, crashing into shelves,
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  Speaker 1: mannequin parts raining down around me. My hands found a door,
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  Speaker 1: not the stairs, but the emergency exit to the alley
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  Speaker 1: behind the store. I slammed my body against it repeatedly
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  Speaker 1: and toil The lock gave way. Night air rushed in
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  Speaker 1: as I tumbled out, gasping into the alleyway. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop running until I reached the main street, the store's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: neon signs still glowing in the distance. I never went
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: back for my final paycheck, but sometimes, walking past high
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: end clothing stores, I glimpsed the Mannikins in their windows,
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  Speaker 1: posed elegantly dressed in thousand dollars outfits, and I swear
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  Speaker 1: one of them has mister Grayson's face. It's glass eyes
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  Speaker 1: following me as I hurry past. They're patient, they silent ones.
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  Speaker 1: They can wait. After all, I still need a job,