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A Touch of Silk

A Touch of Silk

by Matthew Gilder

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Jan 29, 2022
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Bernard watched from his camouflaged blind alongside the roadway as the woman came stumbling slowly toward him. She wore a long black silk dress that looked like an evening gown. Perhaps she’d been at a party when the whole dead-walking thing started. He certainly didn’t think she’d clawed her way out of one of the mass graves from the early days of the…

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