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The Truth About Lying
“We’re overrun,” she said. “And something’s wrong out there.”
Vincent stood. “Wrong how?”
Claire looked from Henry to Jinji to the patch on the table.
“People are raw,” she said. “Like everyone’s skin got thinner.”
For one strange moment, no one moved.
Then Henry remembered the street outside his office. The taxi hanging too long at the intersection. The man’s foot suspended above the road.
A stutter in the world. He looked at the patch. Jinji noticed.
“What?”
“Nothing,” he said.
But it wasn’t nothing.
And for the first time, Henry wondered if they were already late.
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