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The Understudy Always Knows the Lines

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Mark 14 is stage left. I find a scratch in the floorboards shaped like an X. Under the X: a Polaroid. It's Lenore. But her eyes are wrong. Completely black.

I put it in the sink and light it. The photo burns wrong—the eyes stay black the longest, watching as it curls. / Smoke smells like old makeup and something rotten.

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