From the story: “In the once lively alleyway across from City Hall I spot a weathered mural. 'Toadyville U.S.A.' is emblazoned above a painted row of houses, oversized mushrooms and a corral, all under the watchful eye of a bucktoothed ghoul peering out of a two-dimensional second-story window: a witness to decay. Nearly removed by years of South Texas sun are the disfigured yet unmistakable sculpted shapes of horned lizards. Lizards traveling dusty paths, lizards meeting beside a pond, lizards resting in the shade of the mercantile’s porch. They’re missing tails, limbs and, in one case, a head.”
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