Devourer of Souls
I had to rejoin society sometime, even though the risk was learning that Jake Burns had disappeared, never to be seen or heard of again.
Somehow I wasn’t surprised to find myself once more standing before Mr. Trung’s table. Today, however, he displayed mostly pints of freshly picked blueberries, as well as neatly ordered stacks of paperback novels. Immensely relieved to see no black wooden box (but maybe also strangely disappointed) I moved past Mr. Trung’s table, ready to leave it behind . . .
When I encountered it against the table’s far end.
A bike.
Leaning against the end of Mr. Trung’s table, with a price tag hanging from its handlebars. It looked brand new and recently painted a metall
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