Something on the Back
A wet October Saturday in the tin-roofed pavilion at the end of a seaside pier. Desmond Rook has been spotting fakes for forty years. Pearl Dobbs has brought in her late dad's picture of a fishing boat, hoping to prove her sister wrong about it, and Ollie, the volunteer steward, is calling the tickets for a queue that never gets any shorter. Then Desmond says something he didn't mean to say. A door slams, and there's no door. A gull cries, and then it cries again, exactly the same. A man whose whole trade is telling an original from a copy has to apply his own test to the room he's sitting…
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