The Old and the New — Helen Marshall

What begins as a tourist vacation for Rebecca and John becomes something darker when John finds the body of his missing wife buried amongst the bones of the catacombs beneath Paris. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables about history, memory, and the cost of creating art.

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