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“I have a surprise in my attic,” I had causally let slip to one of my party guests.
“Oh yeah?” Exchanging looks with some of the other guests standing near us, his lips cracked into a smile. “Shiny new train set?”
They all laughed at his reply, but it was me who got the last laugh. If only they knew!
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“I have a surprise in my attic,” I had causally let slip to one of my party guests.
“Oh yeah?” Exchanging looks with some of the other guests standing near us, his lips cracked into a smile. “Shiny new train set?”
They all laughed at his reply, but it was me who got the last laugh. If only they knew!
“I’m serious,” I said. “You should come up and check it out.”
“I’m a little old for train sets,” he replied. “But if there’s another drink going then I’m game.”
I took his empty glass from him and smiled. “Your loss, buddy.”
“It’s not a dead body, is it?” one of the other guests joked.
I shook my head with a grin and walked off to the kitchen.
READ MOREThe party lasted for a few more hours before I cleared the house of people. Finally, I was all alone — well, all alone with my secret that was. You see, in some ways I wanted to share my dark secret with the world — even if that meant I’d get into deep trouble. It was just too fantastical a secret to keep myself.
A few weeks ago I stumbled upon an old book by a long-deceased witchdoctor. It promised the reader of the book the power of mind control. Total hypnosis, it claimed. I found the strange ancient tome in the bookstore on one of my lunch breaks. Intrigued by its wild promises, though very skeptical, I bought it; hoping that it would bag me the new hot secretary at work.
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