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Rated: E · Short Story · Horror/Scary · #1059756
A 69er Sequel to "Creature Instinct", an earlier post of the 69er format.
I snorted at my pre-dawn anxiety. What was I, two?

Rufus loped ahead, sniffing here and there. Twenty yards into the forest, thirty from my porch, he froze before the dead-leafed top of a cottonwood tree, snapped off by a storm's winds. His hackles rose.

“What ya got there, Rufus?”

Snagged in the fallen tree's branches were several coarse hairs, long and thick.

*Shock*
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