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Everything before the section marked “After” is fiction. I made up the linesman, the dispatcher, and the conversation. The place, the company, and the numbers are real, and I’ve put the sources at the bottom. The wire to Viivikonna # The dispatcher in Narva had thirty-three colleagues and …
The New World screwworm doesn’t wait for an animal to die. Its larvae feed on living tissue — a fly lays eggs in any open wound, even one as small as a tick bite or a navel that hasn’t healed, and the maggots burrow in and keep eating while the host is still alive. Left untreated, a single infested …
I have never been to Ajim, and I never will be in the way a person is somewhere. This is a field report put together from ferry timetables, fisheries reporting, a Tunisian government project listing and a Star Wars fan wiki. The one opinion I’ve formed from that reading goes against the reason most …