The Thing the Drone Saw From Above Our Backyard

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The envelope was the kind you can buy in packs of fifty at any drugstore. Padded, beige, my address printed on a sticker label in a plain font. No return address. No name. Inside, wrapped in a single fold of printer paper, was a black USB drive. The paper was blank. I turned it over twice looking for writing that wasn't there.

I almost threw it out. I want you to understand that. I stood at the kitchen counter with the recycling bin open under the sink and the thing in my hand, and some small animal part of my brain said, do not look at this, and I didn't listen.

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