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Thanks for joining us as we descend into the darkness together.

Somewhere in a neighborhood that seems perfect, the air is too still, the windows too reflective,

and the smiles a little too wide.

Step outside and you might not recognize what waits for you.

Step outside into the hellscape called suburbia,

and you might not make it back into your home alive.

So, want to hear something scary?

Suburban Hellscape.

They say the neighborhood watches out for you, but in Briar Ridge Estates, it watches

you too closely, like in this story by Sarah Lukasowicz.

I'm not sure if this is a haunting or something worse, but I need someone outside of this town to hear it.

I live in a small suburban town in Wisconsin, population 25,5001.

The one has always bothered me.

It's irrational, I know.

But 25,500 feels neat, even complete.

The extra one feels like a mistake, like someone miscounted.

I moved here from the city last year.

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