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The Child of Smoke by Alex Sinclair

November 6, 2020August 6, 2020 literallystories2014

Rata baboon-leered as the twenty stone clown started to sweat, the meth ravaged copper coloured flesh peeling back from his skull, rubberized dead slug lips baring his yellowed teeth.

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