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The Monsters Were A Mercy

Francisco Goya, Disparate de miedo (Fearful folly), ca. 1816–19; public domain via NYPL.

Let’s begin here:
There was a time when we looked at the blood on the ground and said, something did this. Not someone. Something. A beast. A curse. A creature that slipped through the cracks of the world and feasted on the innocent. We made up stories because the truth was too unbearable: