The Wistful Mountain
The air in the house tasted of ozone and old copper, a metallic tang that coated the back of the throat and settled in the lungs like a fine, invisible dust. We were gathered in the drawing room, a space that had been swallowed by the encroaching twilight of the nineteenth century, where the gaslight flickered with an arrhythmic, nervous pulse, casting long, distorted shadows against the...
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