The Wistful Crossroads
The house is quiet. It is always quiet here, a silence that has teeth. You sit in the study, the leather creaking under your weight. The clock on the mantel ticks. Tick. Tick. Tick. It sounds like a countdown. You are seventy years old, or perhaps eighty. The number does not matter. What matters is that your hands are shaking. You look at them. They are pale, veined, trembling like leaves in a...
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