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Submitted to Contest #117
The problem with living in Kodiak is that it is very easy to hide a body. Even if there were no bodies to be found, there’s no way to tell the difference. Our town, this beautiful emerald island, could be hiding countless mysteries. I hadn’t even considered this possibility until Granddad brought in the paper that morning. Normally, he reads the whole thing, front to back—save for the comic strips; he leaves those for me—but on that Monday morning, when Mom and Jessie had just left for work, he was staring at the front page with an expressio...
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