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Midnight Locked Room

The Man Who Drowned Standing Up

Chapter 7 · free to read

The coroner's line was four words long: drowned, fresh water, standing.

A towel that had never been used, in a room where a man drowned. The Curator's jokes were always this quiet.

Every building has a river in its walls. It only needs somebody to ask it politely to come out.

Forty-one thousand people watched a locked room stop being impossible in under four minutes. Somewhere, so did he.

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