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The Last Smile in Sunder City

The Last Smile in Sunder City  by Luke Arnold “You want proof, Fetch? Look in the mirror. You hold on to guilt like it’s a life preserver. So angry at yourself, and your mob, that you can’t smell the blood on the hands of the rest of us. But it isn't about you and your kind tonight. It’s just me. Sometimes, the one who looks like the monster turns out to be a monster.” (Arnold 169).  There are three things you need to know about the main character Fetch Phillips.  1. Sobriety costs extra. 2. His services are confidential.  3. He doesn’t work for humans.  As a man for hire in a world where magic has recently run out, Fetch has seen it all. Vampires no longer drink blood, werewolves are stuck somewhere between human and beasts, necromancers stopped raising the dead, and Satyrs disappear and humans are the only ones who make it out unscathed. All except Fetch.  He knows what killed the magic, what caused the death of thousands of people and the love of his life, and all the suffering