The Faded Alibi
The Great Hall of St. Jude’s Orphanage was a cavern of dust and mahogany, where the light from the high, arched windows did not illuminate so much as suspend the air in a pale, yellow haze. It was a place built for ghosts, or perhaps for the living who had forgotten how to speak, and for the duration of the annual harvest festival, it was filled with the heavy, suffocating scent of roasting...
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