โ Scribed by Michael Marano
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The last surviving member of a community destroyed by AIDS shoulders the terrible burden of remembering his dead friends... who rise up in anger when he shirks that duty. This story " captures that fear and that crushing sense of loss permeating a disease-stricken community to (literal) haunting effect" (Theresa DeLucci, Tor.com).
This tale comes from Stories from the Plague Years, the debut short fiction collection of International Horror Guild Award- and Bram Stoker Award-winner Michael Marano.
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