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<strong>Jack</strong> <strong>kilborn</strong> <strong>SErial</strong> <strong>blakE</strong> <strong>crouch</strong><br />

and Maggie needed his attention.<br />

“Sal!”<br />

no answer.<br />

Maggie considered banging on the floor, and wondered<br />

what the point would be. She knew the man downstairs was<br />

Sal. Who else could it be?<br />

right?<br />

Their lake house was the last one on Gold Star road,<br />

and their nearest neighbor, the kinsels, resided over half a<br />

mile down the shore and had left for the season. The solitude<br />

was one of the reasons the Mortons bought this property.<br />

unless she went to town to shop, Maggie would often go<br />

days without seeing another human being, not counting her<br />

husband. The thought of someone else being in their home<br />

was ridiculous.<br />

reassured by that thought, Maggie closed her eyes.<br />

She opened them a moment later, when the sound of<br />

the microwave carried up the stairs. Then came the muffled<br />

machine-gun report of popcorn popping. Sal shouldn’t be<br />

eating at this hour. The doctor had warned him about that,<br />

and how it aggravated his acid reflux disease, which in turn<br />

aggravated Maggie with his constant tossing and turning all<br />

night.<br />

She sighed, annoyed, and sat up in bed.<br />

“Sal! The doctor said no late night snacks!”<br />

no answer. Maggie wondered if Sal indeed had a<br />

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