The river smelled like wet earth and old decisions.
Julian Mercer stood on the porch of Mercer Manor and watched the Mississippi roll past, brown and slow and indifferent to the fact that it was carrying his family's history downstream whether he wanted it to or not. The house behind him groaned—the kind of groan that old wooden structures make when they're tired of holding themselves up. He had been hearing it for three days, ever since he'd...
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