The Faded Photograph
The air in the town hall smelled of damp wool, stale beer, and the metallic tang of fear, a heavy perfume that clung to the back of the throat and refused to be washed away. We were gathered in the long, vaulted room, a sea of faces lit by the flickering gas lamps that hummed with a low, electric anxiety, and in the center of this swirling chaos stood Elias Thorne, my father, a man who had...
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