“Impossible,” he whispered. His breath clouded in the cold air.
He read on.
Mr. Novel — the man who had stopped writing ten years ago — reached for his fountain pen. His hand trembled. But the mist was cold, and the dead were patient, and Margazhi had thirty days.
But tonight, he wasn’t writing. He was deleting.
He frowned. “Kupdf? What nonsense is this?”
One line: