The Wistful Atlas

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The Wistful Atlas

The rain did not fall so much as it hung in the air, a fine, metallic mist that settled into the crevices of the brickwork and the pores of Edward Ashworth’s skin, carrying with it the scent of wet iron and the distant, sulfurous ghost of the coal fires that fed the city’s insatiable hunger. He stood at the edge of the platform, his breath a visible thing, a white exhalation that vanished too...

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