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Nine Tenants, Eight Keys
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Edda steps over the warm threshold and into the burned house. The fire crew waves her back, but she pushes upstairs to room 9. The door is locked. She tries each of the eight keys the landlord saved. None of them fit. The ninth key is gone.
Edda kicks the door hard, twice, and it bursts open. Room 9 is barely touched by the fire. The bed is made. There's a thick layer of dust on everything, except for one clean square on the desk, where something was just taken away.
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Edda lifts the edge of the clean square and finds a photo slid under the desk pad, missed by whoever grabbed the rest. A young woman, laughing, arms around all eight survivors when they were younger. On the back, in pen: 'Dahlia, the night before.'
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Tomas Eklund
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