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    I am in agony please help me, esteemed fellow readers of internet.

    Quite a while ago I read a piece of short fiction that stuck with me. The gist was that somewhere in Appalachia or similar, a tax man or debt collector or some city fellow interloper asshole arrives in a holler with the intention to collect taxes or a debt or property or something from I think a widow or an old lady. This results in him being given incorrect directions to the next town or to somewhere else and the final passage is a harrowing and incredible description of the sound of said interloper being eaten alive by wild boars. The sound of his bones being broken is likened to hogs eating wild tree nuts hull and all.

    I think MAYBE(???) I read it in Harper's or maybe Granta I don't recall. It wasn't assigned to me in school, I somehow stumbled upon it in the wild. I have tried every permutation I can think of in google and I cannot. fucking. find. it.

    It is driving me up a wall. I am fixated. It is haunting me. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to how/where else to look

    halp. brain loud and mad. need story.

    by klaxon_of_puzzlement

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