The Pale Verdict
The ink bled. It did not stain the paper so much as it ate into it, a slow, grey consumption of the white. Thomas Bradshaw sat in the center of the room, the silence of the office pressing against his eardrums like deep water. The clock on the wall, a brass mechanism with a pendulum that swung with the weight of a metronome, ticked. Tick. Tick. Tick. Each second a small death. Each second a...
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