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You wake up before dawn.

This was once abnormal for you that ever since the election, you found it harder and harder to sleep.

You just barely drifted off when the sound of shouts wafted in from across the street.

Reflected sirens bounce off your bedroom window. Through a fog of sleep, you reflect on the last few days.

Voting went better, you'd feared.

It's what happened in the days after that's kept your spine at a constant eerie tingle.

Several Republican-led states are refusing to certify their election results.

Most analysts say the blizzard of lawsuits launched on behalf of Trump have no chance at winning,

but that didn't stop the candidate

from declaring victory and promising to carry out his own inauguration, no matter what the courts

decide. It's all absurd, laughable, but you live on the border of a majority red county, and your

sheriffs just announced support for the real winner of the election. Your local PD have been notably silent,

while right-wing provocateurs online have started circulating allegations of election fraud that the sheriff

has promised to look into. That was yesterday. Today, just after five, you're jolted awake in your

bed by the sound of breaking glass and screaming.

You stay low and crawl to your front window to peep out, across your yard and into the street before you.

Three police cruisers are stacked up in front of your neighbor's house.

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