A rock thrown through a window in an abandoned shed let something out... something that's beyond the ability of one young boy to cope with.
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The shed was not even used anymore. Dan and Jared were not sure when it had ever been used.
They weren't supposed to go near it.
"Rusty, rotten thing," Jared's mom called it. "Hunk of crap," Jared's dad called it.
Dan's parents did not talk about it much ever since Dan a year or two ago had
reported to Jared that his parents had suggested getting a petition to get Jared's
parents to get rid of it and Jared's parents had stopped talking to Dan's for two
years.
The shed stood near the back of Jared's yard and had been there for as long as he
could remember, which at 12 was not that much in reality but was an infinite
amount of time as far as Jared was concerned. Jared's parents had not built the
shed, which was locked shut and had been for a long time because teenagers had
snuck in there, long ago, and used it to drink and do drugs, and Jared's parents
had been worried about that. Jared remembered that. It was about his earliest
memory of the shed.
He wondered then, and later, why his parents had locked the door but not
removed the shed.
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