I found this in my son’s room while cleaning.

the object into the light with a broom, the tension split open into stunned silence, then helpless laughter. It was only a pistachio shell, dust-coated and sinister in the half-dark. All that dread, all that spiraling panic, summoned by a forgotten snack that had rolled just out of sight and into the reach of our imaginations.

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