The House on the Quai
The house had ten rooms and no proper name. Once, above the iron gate, the words ELEANOR'S LODGING had been painted in gold leaf, but the war of taxes and neglect had eaten the paint until only the O and the R remained, curving like crescent moons against rust. Eleanor did not attempt to repaint them. Names were expensive, and the people who came to the Quai did not come for names. It stood on...
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