There are cases of Jewish corpses being abused on their way to the cemetery; and even one instance of a father watching as his son was stabbed to death in the street.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Sep. 2026
Homecoming aside, there’s still the Trawler to worry about, a fact we’re reminded of when another victim turns up on a playground, this time with a pentagram carved into his back and fish corpses shoved into his wounds.
Then, in March of 1992, some forty godwit carcasses were seized from a poacher in New Zealand.
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Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2026
Their charred carcasses litter the steep lanes leading to the villages, while the houses have been reduced to nothing more than piles of smoking ashes.
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