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Bimbo is maneuvered into a graveyard whose tombstones sway and sing, and whose ground opens up to reveal teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

Soldiers who demonstrated "extraordinary valour" are honoured with outdoor graves and tombstones, while others are commemorated in urns inside the columbarium.

From BBC May 7, 2026

In the town's cemetery, an AFP journalist saw a hole that looked like a dug-up grave, surrounded by other tombstones.

From Barron's Mar. 7, 2026

The art installation consists of over 100 tombstones, each with identical black fists and names I remember from 2020.

From Slate Feb. 11, 2026

The first Anna hailed from an industrial town outside of Warsaw and had front teeth the size of tombstones.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris




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