The Shell in the Walls
The fog that clung to Edinburgh in 1893 was not like other fogs. It was thick and yellow and smelled of coal smoke and the Firth of Forth, and it seeped through window frames and door cracks and the spaces between teeth, until a man could breathe it and taste it and feel it settling in the lungs like a second skin. Dr. Edmund Sterling preferred it. The fog obscured. The fog concealed. The fog...
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