The Faded Bouquet
The rain did not fall so much as it was extracted from the sky, a cold, mechanical bleed that slicked the cobblestones of Whitechapel into a mirror of black glass. I stood beneath the awning of the Magistrate’s office, watching the droplets race down the gutters in a frantic, silent sprint toward the sewers. The year was 1892, though the date felt less like a number and more like a weight...
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