I managed to keep dinner in its place. Then I really looked at the bodies.

Flies swarmed over them, and the light revealed something moving in the soft tissue of their faces. My stomach rebelled yet again when I realized they were maggots. The bodies were bloated, which I thought meant they’d been there at least a couple of days. That fit with when I found the kid.

Paul knelt over the bodies, shining the light up and down the corpses. I glanced away. The moving light plus the moving bugs was more than I could take.

Suddenly, I realized something. He’d been right about the smell. I must have been getting used to it because it wasn’t as overwhelming. Small favors.

“What do you think? Is it them?”

He shook his head. “I can’t be certain of t...

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