Chapter 17

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These chilling tales unfold in ordinary places: a clinic medicine shelf, a midwifery dormitory beside a cemetery, a family kitchen, a city bus and a mountain trail. A pharmacist finds a key that should not be there, a girl hears her mother chopping vegetables moments before her mother walks in the front door, hikers meet a woman missing for three years, and villagers keep their children indoors before Maghrib. In each story, an everyday routine opens onto something that refuses to stay unseen.

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