The Faded Guest

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The Faded Guest

The bell in the tower of St. Jude’s Asylum for the Unsettled did not ring to mark the hour. It rang to mark the end of things. I remember the sound as a physical weight, a heavy stone dropped into the quiet of my mind. It was the winter of 1893, or perhaps 1894. Time had become a viscous fluid in this place, thick and cold, pooling in the corners of the high-ceilinged wards. I was twenty-six...

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