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    Noises
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    Noises

    By PJ Miller

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    Jake hated noises. He also hated spiders and rats, almost as much as he hated thinking about them. His thoughts kept him awake at night...every night...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPJ Miller
    Release dateApr 7, 2013
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      Noises

      Jake hated the night. He hated everything about it. The darkness, the loneliness, the cold and the noises. He reserved a very special kind of hate for the noises. He knew the expression 'things that go bump in the night'. It wasn't those sorts of noises that Jake was worried about.

      He lay awake most of the night, every night, listening. He knew all of the noises his house made. He knew all houses made those noises as they cooled. He knew this because his daddy had told him

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