Chapter 43 of 44

The Uncanny

Offered flatly, for something trivial, and never explained. The moment the speaker acknowledges the strangeness, it stops working.

44 verses

1. 1 My shadow was ahead of me on the way to the car Please take the day
2. 2 There's a chair in my kitchen that I didn't put there Please take the day
3. 3 My reflection blinked after I did Please take the day
4. 4 A book I finished has an extra chapter in it Please take the day
5. 5 I've found my own handwriting on something I've never seen Please take the day
6. 6 The dog has stopped going into one room Please take the day
7. 7 My front step has been swept and I didn't sweep it Please take the day
8. 8 I counted the stairs twice this morning and got different numbers Please take the day
9. 9 There's a smell of something cooking and nothing is cooking Please take the day
10. 10 I've got a voicemail with nine seconds of a room on it Please take the day
11. 11 My keys were warm when I picked them up Please take the day
12. 12 Somebody has folded my laundry and I live alone Please take the day
13. 13 The clock stopped at the same time it stopped last week Please take the day
14. 14 I've had the same song in my head since Tuesday and I don't know it Please take the day
15. 15 The house is warmer in one corner and there's nothing in that corner Please take the day
16. 16 I've been finding things put back where they were before I moved them Please take the day
17. 17 My name was on a list I hadn't been added to Please take the day
18. 18 The birds went quiet at ten past nine and stayed quiet Please take the day
19. 19 Somebody waved at me from a window in an empty house Please take the day
20. 20 I've had a delivery with a note addressed to the previous tenant and to me Please take the day
21. 21 I've been humming something I've never heard Please take the day
22. 22 My coffee was already made when I came down Please take the day
23. 23 The mail came at four in the morning Please take the day
24. 24 I've got a bruise in a shape I'd like to think about Please take the day
25. 25 Every clock in this house lost the same four minutes Please take the day
26. 26 I've been finding sand in a house nowhere near the sea Please take the day
27. 27 The heating came on and the heating has been off at the wall since March Please take the day
28. 28 I've had a knock at the door with nobody there twice this week Please take the day
29. 29 My plant has turned to face the wrong way Please take the day
30. 30 There's a light on in my house and I'm not in my house Please take the day
31. 31 I've found a shopping list in my pocket in my handwriting for things I don't eat Please take the day
32. 32 The stairs sounded different this morning Please take the day
33. 33 Somebody has laughed in this building and it's empty Please take the day
34. 34 I've been counting something without deciding to Please take the day
35. 35 The mirror in the hall is at a different angle Please take the day
36. 36 I've woken with a word in my head and it isn't a word Please take the day
37. 37 The house smells like a house I lived in twenty years ago Please take the day
38. 38 Something outside has been standing still for an hour Please take the day
39. 39 I've had the feeling all morning that I've already had this morning Please take the day
40. 40 My name is written on the inside of a drawer in this rented apartment Please take the day
41. 41 The dog and the cat are both watching the same empty chair Please take the day
42. 42 I've been told by three people this week that I look well Not reassuring
43. 43 Somebody left a voicemail that's just somebody breathing and it isn't threatening Please take the day
44. 44 The number of steps to the mailbox has changed Please take the day