You woke up to the sound of a car starting and the sight of your family driving away, leaving you in a little lakeside cabin some five hundred miles from home. You wondered if they'd finally seen the bleeding people under the surface of the lake or the goliath arms that reached down from the sky and brought massive handfuls of water to unseen mouths.
Or maybe they planned to abandon you all along.
You weren't alone though. Not with the lake people watching you from just below the water or the thing that lived under the cabin that liked to knock on the door late at night or shadowy figures that sailed downstream during the day and returned at night with nets full of weeping fish.
Things could have been worse.
You were lucky enough and little enough to be able to sneak all around the other cabins and take as much food as you needed. They always blamed the local wildlife, setting out traps while you crept out of basement windows and gently closed porch doors.
Slowly but surely you became a part of the lakeside - a scrawny childlike shape that was always hungry.
Or maybe they planned to abandon you all along.
You weren't alone though. Not with the lake people watching you from just below the water or the thing that lived under the cabin that liked to knock on the door late at night or shadowy figures that sailed downstream during the day and returned at night with nets full of weeping fish.
Things could have been worse.
You were lucky enough and little enough to be able to sneak all around the other cabins and take as much food as you needed. They always blamed the local wildlife, setting out traps while you crept out of basement windows and gently closed porch doors.
Slowly but surely you became a part of the lakeside - a scrawny childlike shape that was always hungry.
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