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- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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"But come back soon", the sign said. Obviously it was a lie. The people in the grocery store just wanted to make sure he couldn't buy the spice he needed to make the recipe he'd selected for that night (recipes must be followed exactly). Obviously they wanted him to eat out...to meet the waitress, Marta, to see her horrible, unspeakable, unbearable ugliness. It was obvious to him: her maimed, twisted face was the living desire to be dead. He had to help Marta be dead.
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