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WHAT CAME IN WENT
    OUT

    Originally published
    in slightly different version under a 

    different title in St
    Ann's Review.



    A couple
    was startled by a man in
    a yellow Ralph Lauren Polo shirt who'd walked right into their
    house through the open back door. They were drinking coffee in
    the kitchen; the man just coolly said, "hi." So the
    husband thought the man was a friend or colleague of his wife.
    The man began talking very rapidly to the husband about fly-wheels,
    and so the wife thought the man was a friend or colleague of
    her husband. The man opened the refrigerator door and helped
    himself to cranberry juice, straight from the jug. Some spilled
    on his shirt. They were beginning to realize this was strange,
    when, from the hook by back door, the man swiped the car keys.
    He went into the garage and started the Mercedes. He backed out,
    BLAM through the closed garage door. The man and their Mercedes
    have not been seen since.

    


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