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It Was Like You Saw the Devil in Something and Just Kept Going by Rory Hughes

July 25, 2022April 6, 2022 literallystories2014

There was the smell of fried wires and greasewood; the sound of tempered glass shattering, the echo of it like bar chimes.

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