Blair Bathory
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first heard Nov 2024
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When I was eight, my parents worked nights during the summer, so my younger sister and I stayed with our grandmother.
She lived at the end of a gravel road in rural Kentucky, and the woods came right up behind the house.
Every evening, just after sunset, the crickets started.
There had to be thousands of them.
It was so loud you could barely hear anything else.
Grandma hated it.
As soon as they started, she'd go around the house checking windows.
Windows.
She'd pull the curtains shut and tell us not to play in the back of the house.
Not outside.
The back of the house.
I remember thinking that was a weird distinction, but grandma had a lot of weird rules.
No whistling indoors, don't leave your shoes upside down, don't answer the phone after the fourth ring.
She didn't question it.
One August night, I woke up because the crickets had stopped.
Not slowly, all at once.
I remember sitting up in bed because the silence felt wrong.
I could hear the little clock on my nightstand ticking.
Then I heard someone walking through the leaves outside.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
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