Next to it was this chess set that Finn had made in art school. He said he kept it to remind him never, ever to be a pretentious idiot. All the squares on the board were black, so it was hard to know whether you were in the right place. The pieces were these tiny rat skulls that he’d varnished. Each one had a small mark to tell you what piece it was. The bishops had a little cross on the top, and the knights had small horse heads. But other than that they were all the same. Practically identical unless you looked up close, and then you’d start to see the differences. Like one might have a
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