The Mercy of the Silence
(V-14: Victorian Redemption) The village of Oakhaven was a place of perpetual autumn, where the golden leaves fell like forgotten promises upon the damp earth. My father, a man of once-great pride and now-great fragility, lay in the master bedroom of our cottage, his life ebbing away in a series of shallow, labored breaths. My brothers—Julian, Alistair, and Percival—were consumed by a fever of...
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