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Hometown Hero: Chapter 8

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May 14, 2026
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Hometown Hero: Chapter 8

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

At her desk in the Crummburg Hospital,
underground, next to the morgue, where corpses
sprawled and slept on stainless steel, Trilby Stash
fidgeted through thick book of photographs:
her work, taken of those alive, not dead,
inmates of the cheerless barracks above,
posed…

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