The Faded Dust

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The Faded Dust

The cellar door was always locked, but I knew where the key lay, tucked beneath the loose flagstone behind the coal chute. It was a small brass thing, cold and unyielding in my palm, a piece of the house that did not belong to the day. I stood in the dark, listening to the wind rattle the panes of the upper windows, a sound like dry leaves skittering across a grave. I was thirty years old, and...

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