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Nobody Reported the Tide

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Marsh decided to drive to Saltcreek himself. Every claim listed the same address: a beach house at the end of Pelican Road. If six dead people all lied about the same house, he wanted to stand in front of it.

The house at the end of Pelican Road was real, but boarded up and empty for years. A faded sign said it belonged to some trust Marsh had never heard of. He took photos, then spotted fresh tire tracks in the sand out back.

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Marsh followed the tracks around the dunes to a small marina. A man was loading boxes of blank claim forms onto a boat — the exact forms his six victims had used. The man looked up, saw Marsh, and froze.

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