The Faded Apartment
The coughing fits start in the attic, a sound like wet gravel grinding against the underside of your ribs. You are alone in the house, but the silence is not empty; it is thick, pressurized, and filled with the slow, rhythmic thumping of the old cast-iron boiler in the basement. It is a sound you have known since childhood, the mechanical heartbeat of the house, but today it feels different. It...
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