not rising and falling the way someone who was breathing’s chest would do.  A flicker of light from the flame caught the stranger’s eyes briefly, and Jimmy frowned.  There was something unusual about them… at first he had thought they were closed, but now as he looked more closely he could see that they were in fact still open, but that a covering of some sort had made them appear to be closed instead!  The covering was almost skin-like, but not as smooth as skin would be.  It was almost crusty in appearance.  This second “skin” had extended from his mouth and was stretching over his facial features, around the edges of his nose, over his brow and down to his chin and even neck. 

Jimmy had never seen a body decompose before, but he had watched enough C...

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