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The Tuesday That Wouldn't Stay Buried

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Mara found Tomas at the coffee shop, alive and grinning. "You look like you've seen a ghost," he said. She grabbed his arm and begged him to stay off Main Street today. He laughed, but the fear in her face made him stop laughing fast.

Tomas listened, finally, and stayed inside with Mara. They watched out the window at noon. The delivery truck rolled past, slow and harmless. The corner where he should have died stayed empty. Mara hugged her brother so hard he gasped. She had done it. Tuesday let him go.

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