A MYSTERY

Full story originally appeared in Subterrain.

There was a story we used to tell sometimes, on those occasions when we’d found ourselves in a certain mode of thinking, when we’d perhaps had too much to drink and been afforded too much leeway in an evening’s conversation, when we’d let ourselves loosen and found things taking a turn we weren’t sure we wanted them to take. It was a story from years ago, in our hometown in Nova Scotia.

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