The Distant Affair

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The house was a skeleton. It stood on the ridge. Concrete bones. Rebar teeth. Gray against the sky. I stared at it. From the car. My hands shook. They always shake now. When I see it. My name is Elias. I am a scholar. Of things past. Of things dead. I study ruins. That is my job. I write papers. Long, dry words. About collapse. About failure. But this one. This one was different. It was new....

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