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 Notes on an overheard conversation about the possibility of the Return of the
                    Demonic Creature, or The Alien Invasion
                                        
“Come quick! I just saw something entering the neighbor's house.”

“A burgler?”

“No, something. Nothing human. Come on!”

“Okay! Okay! I'm coming. Where?”

“See where I'm shining the light?”

“Yes. It looks like a screen is falling out.”

“Yeah! That's where I saw and heard movement when I was taking out the
garbage. Some … thing … scrambling to get in.”

“Might be a squirrel.”

“It could be the start of an alien invasion!”

“Really? It's a squirrel, or maybe an opossum [1].”

“Or, you know, the return of the Demonic Creature that invaded Bill's Room
[2]!”

“Now you're being silly.”

“Don't say I didn't warn you.”

[1] https://www.dictionary.com/e/possum-opossum/
[2] http://www.conman.org/people/spc/writings/murphy/ml409.html

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