LUNAR VEIL
“You’ll see for yourself. Body’s at the morgue.”
The morgue was nothing like the facilities she was used to. A single-room basement beneath the sheriff’s office, dimly lit, the air heavy with disinfectant that only half-masked the metallic tang of blood. The body lay on a table beneath a sheet.
Evelyn pulled on gloves, her movements methodical, controlled. She lifted the sheet.
Tom Greeley stared up at her with glassy eyes, his face frozen in a rictus of terror. His torso was a ruin of torn flesh and jagged lacerations, ribs snapped like twigs. Evelyn leaned closer, tracing the pattern of the wounds.
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