Graham Rowat
speaker
976 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 6d ago
Graham Rowat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'd seen census mistakes before, people miscounting or including relatives who only visited occasionally, but this wasn't some oversight.
It was a pattern.
The deeper I went, the clearer it became.
Every face I saw was drawn, their skin like wax paper stretched over their bones, their clothes hung loose on their frames, their movements were sluggish, and getting them to speak more than a sentence was like pulling teeth.
Was there some sickness here, I wondered?
Some fever playing tricks on people's minds?
I hadn't been briefed on any outbreak, but it was possible.
Could be something wrong with the water.
I was thankful I'd turned down that drink for Mrs. Holloway.
Still, the unease burrowed deeper into me with every door I knocked on, with every wavering, uncertain voice insisting on a presence that clearly wasn't there.
Eventually, frustration got the better of me.
I stood at the edge of the town square, flipping through my ledgers, scanning numbers from the last census.
Hemsley had always been small, its population predictable.
Ten years ago, I'd recorded each household, cross-checked every name, logged every resident with precision I was proud of.
Even allowing for natural shifts, deaths, births, people moving, my records should have been roughly accurate.
But they weren't.
even factoring in normal fluctuation, every single household had one more than it should.
I stared at the numbers, tapping my pen absently against the page, trying to make sense of it.
One extra person.
Everywhere.
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