There, against the wall, the suit of armor
that the exiled king of Prussia had given us.
(We found his lost dog, averting a third World War.) Next to it, in a glass case, a single tooth
from Genghis Khan, full of his bloodlust and brilliance. Over there, a pile of gold coins, invisibly
tainted with the blood of a saint; and next to it, a deck of cards still
imprisoning a circus of demons.
(from Stupefying
Stories 21, edited by Bruce Bethke)
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