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Do you believe in fairies?

Chapter 19: SILENCE
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A collection of short fantasies and lyrical poems written with a childlike eye, presenting whimsical encounters with fairies, goblins, and other small marvels set against ordinary streets and countryside. Narrative vignettes follow children and curious adults into secret glades, enchanted stones, and musical charms, while interleaved rhymes, ballades, and reflective sketches touch on adolescence, religion, city nights, and domestic humor. The pieces blend playful imagination with mild melancholy and moral observation, inviting readers to rediscover wonder in commonplace scenes through concise storylets and musical verse.

SILENCE

You think the house is silent when you’re out?
The ticking clock
Obtrudes its measured beat,
Slower than before.
The windows knock.
’Way down the hall I hear a creaking door.
A tenseness in the air ...
Someone behind me.
Frantically I try to think ...
Of other things ...
Of anything ...
“This is mere nonsense ...
Nonsense,
Nonsense ...
The room is empty!”
Hush ...
What was that noise out in the hall?
That brushing sound...?
That creaking...?
Oh, how can you think
The house is silent when I’m here alone?