The Wistful Crossroads
The house breathed. That was the only word for it. A slow, rhythmic expansion and contraction of the old oak beams, a sighing of the plaster, as if the structure itself possessed lungs and a heart. I stood in the center of the library, holding a glass of cold wine that I had not touched. The air smelled of dust, beeswax, and the faint, sweet rot of overripe figs. It was a smell of ending. The...
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