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He was in the bathroom shaving

from Armchair Creeps by the spectre collector

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"He was in the bathroom shaving"

(There are some things that can never be explained. Sarah Hume discovered this one morning in The Country House while she and her husband, Dan, were getting ready to go downstairs for breakfast.)

He was in the bathroom shaving. The door was open just a crack so I could see him standing in front of the mirror, face half-covered in soap. The same sweet, square-jawed face I had covered in kisses the night before.

The sound the cutthroat razor made as it scraped across his whiskers set my teeth on edge. It was an awful sort of dead, white noise.

I heard him swish the razor around and around, cutting through the basin water.

Then it happened. Like an extreme camera flash. A blinding burst of white light exploded out of the bathroom. No noise, just a brightness that blinded me, confused me.

I called out - “Dan? Dan, are you okay?”
Silence.
“Honey?”
Nothing.
“Hey …” I pushed open the bathroom door. Wha …

The man shaving in front of the bathroom mirror was not my husband. It didn’t even look like him. He turned to me, his face half-covered in soap.
“Hi honey, you okay?” he asked.

“Where’s … Dan?” I mumbled.
The stranger just shrugged and went back to his shaving.


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from Armchair Creeps, released June 28, 2015
He was in the bathroom shaving:
- Written, produced and directed by Ron Jon.
- Voice - Ron Jon.
- Voice – Tessa Newton.
- Music – “Lithium” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

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