F&SF currently has Chris Willrich’s story “The Thief With Two Deaths” posted on our website. It’s sort of an experiment in web publishing, so if you think it’s a good idea, be sure to let Gordon and I know about it. Enjoy!

The Thief With Two Deaths

by Chris Willrich



ONCE IN THE RAMSHACKLE avenues where Palmary meets the sea, a poet loved a thief with two deaths. It might have been the May-December match of a hundred poor songs and a thousand worse jokes, save for two points which balanced the scales: owing to his odd condition the old thief more resembled a man of nineteen than of ninety-nine; and the young poet had a taste for graveyards.

It was in a graveyard that they sealed their fates.   

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