Jesse
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I raised the shotgun.
I aimed it at the thing in the yard.
It didn't move.
It stood in the floodlight and looked at me and its mouth opened slightly, just enough that I could see teeth.
They were small and densely packed and there were too many of them, filling a mouth that seemed wider on the inside than it was on the outside.
I said what I'd said the night before.
I said, get off this property.
I said, you're not welcome here.
It tilted its head.
The way a dog tilts its head when it hears a sound it doesn't understand.
Slow, precise, mechanical.
Then it took a step toward me.
I fired.
The shotgun kicked hard.
The blast was enormous in the hollow, echoing off both ridges.
I didn't aim for the thing's body.
I aimed for the ground in front of it, about five feet ahead of where it was standing.
The gravel erupted in a spray of rock and dust.
The thing flinched.
It pulled back, not dramatically, just a small contraction, the way you'd pull your hand back from a hot surface.