The Faded River

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The Faded River

The whistle blew at four o’clock, a long, shrill shriek that seemed to tear the fabric of the sky above the shipyard, and I watched Margaret Holloway walk away from the gate, her silhouette shrinking against the soot-stained ironwork until she was no more than a speck of dust in the industrial haze. We did not speak; we had exhausted our vocabulary for comfort, our words for solace, and now...

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