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A Wild Night

AT ROUGHLY 1.30am Sam-mi Wiles was stepping back into her apartment, a small place she’d never really got around to furnishing.

Her arrival awakened the cat, Morris, who was the only other living being in the house. Well, that’s if you didn’t count the plants. Sammi did.

She’d read an article about the benefits of having plants in your home according to the Chinese art of feng shui and even though she didn’t really believe in it she’d decided it was better to be safe than sorry.

So, slowly Sammi began to fill up her flat with plants.

She wasn’t particular about which plants either. There were tiny aloes, delicate lilies and even orchids with flashy flowers.

Sammi would place them in colourful pots and in every nook and cranny.

The plants ensured the air

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