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Nightjars by Michael Wehunt

A stranger leaves a Polaroid on the counter of a secondhand bookshop in Decatur. It was taken in 1993, the owner is eleven years old in it, and someone has written a riddle about a bird on the white strip below the image.

Nightjars by Michael Wehunt

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A stranger leaves a Polaroid on the counter of a secondhand bookshop in Decatur.

It was taken in 1993, the owner is eleven years old in it, and someone has written a riddle about a bird on the white strip below the image.

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A stranger leaves a Polaroid on the counter of a secondhand bookshop in Decatur. It was taken in 1993, the owner is eleven years old in it, and someone has written a riddle about a bird on the white strip below the image.

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