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    Posthumous: A Telling
    Posthumous: A Telling
    Posthumous: A Telling
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    Posthumous: A Telling

    By RM CRUZ

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    Posthumous: A Telling, A Short Story by RM Cruz

    The starving artist, Nigel Traum, barely made headlines. Now, following his death, and an unsettling suicide note, the warding community has gathered at the Gate of Horn for his last showcase. Will his final message be too revealing? Too much? Too soon?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRM CRUZ
    Release dateJan 14, 2019
    ISBN9781386987376
    Posthumous: A Telling
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    RM CRUZ

    RM Cruz published "Static Mornings," and "Paper Towers." She lives on the island of Guam with her family.

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      Posthumous - RM CRUZ

      His Work.

      The story of his suicide went viral. Nigel Traum, the young painter, was found dead in the water under a wharf. News of his death got twice as many views as his showcase at the Gates of Horn Gallery the day before his death.

      The police psychic on duty, Jacinta Aguilar, had a clear image of Traum standing alone at the pier. He had plunged deliberately into the icy waters. Detective Ryan Barnes noted that his body bore no evidence of foul play. There was only a day old cut on his left arm.

      So when investigators manipulated the lock and entered Traum’s apartment, they were not surprised to find the suicide note written and placed with such care in the center of his empty desk of his otherwise chaotic studio. But the note’s contents were disconcerting.

      I am dead, the message read. They are alive. You will see. You will all see.

      The web teemed with opinions about what this meant. Anneliese Schlatter of ArtBeat claimed that Traum’s note was a grandiose drunken-raving. It was very similar to the shoddy, alarmist paintings of his last exhibit.

      Commenters suggested reviews -like Schlatter’s- had driven Traum to suicide. That she ought to be prosecuted, to undergo a short sharp course of miserific spells, and that her cruelty was expected of a woman with a foreign name. 

      Schlatter’s rebuttal included a spirited declaration of her willingness to suffer for the freedom of speech and to remind those that

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