The Distant Threshold
The floorboards of the library did not creak; they screamed. It was a high, thin sound, like a nail being driven slowly into wet wood. I had lived in this house for thirty years. I had mapped every groan of the oak beams, every shiver of the plaster. But this sound was new. It was the sound of the foundation breaking. The house was dying. Not rotting, not leaking, but shattering from the inside...
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