It’s actually quite interesting how many uses there are for a human corpse. Wanda and Willow Zeldamine, the old sisters two streets over, use the skin to make curtains and bed skirts, the bones to make furniture and tableware, and almost everything else for their apothecary business. Sometimes, Bone Daddy, a local jazz musician, will buy teeth from me because his wife makes jewelry or grinds them up, adding dyes to create makeup. There’s Kline Mitchem, an acquaintance of mine who works as a traveling performer in a gothic clown show. He’ll sometimes purchase face skin to turn into masks. The
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