Where the Dead go to Die
Ribbons of intestines arranged before him in tribute to the fickleness of his flesh and the merit of the bones that had been thieved.
The door to the room next to the dead man opened a fraction, and in the red light Woods saw a woman’s face. It appeared engraved in the dim. She was one of her guests. Her name, from memory, was Margaret, though Woods couldn’t be sure. There were so many of them, a revolving door of infected souls passing through this way station. Men, women, and children coming from terrible places with terrible histories heading straight into the great big black on the other side. Woods’ jolt over seeing the dead Crowner was secondary to the guilt of not being able to recall
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