The Golden Circuit
The ink had dried before the candle guttered out. Thomas wrote the date, then his name, then the words *My Dearest Mother*, and stopped. The quill felt heavy in his hand, a dead bird’s wing. Outside, the rain lashed the shutters of the attic room, a relentless, cold drumming that matched the beating of his own heart. He was seventeen. He had been seventeen for three years, stuck in this gray...
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