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Tight Little Stitches on a Dead Man's Back

They did it — they launched the damned nukes and the world went pretty much straight to hell. Not many survived, but some of those who did emerged twenty years later, to a world where mutant whales heaved themselves across the blackened, dry seabed of the Pacific, and the roses... oh God, the roses.

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"Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" is a chilling post-nuclear short story by Joe R. Lansdale.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 46 pages

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