The Wistful Dinner

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The note was pinned to the door of the mill with a rusted nail, the paper damp and soft as skin. It read: *Come to the square. Now.* Elias Thorne tore the paper down, his fingers slipping on the wet pulp, and looked out into the grey morning. He was forty years old, a scholar of natural history who had not slept in three days. In his arms, wrapped in a burlap sack, was the severed head of the...

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