Headstones in Your Pocket — Paul Tremblay

A border patrol guard in Arizona is haunted by the demons of his past after accidentally keeping a child's tooth he'd confiscated from man who attempted to enter America illegally. From Paul Tremblay's In the Mean Time, this tale is one of fifteen “finely crafted” (Locus Magazine) stories of fear and paranoia, stories of apocalypses both societal and personal, and stories of longing and coping.

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