The Distant Threshold
The house burns. You are not in it. You are standing on the wet gravel of the driveway, watching the eaves collapse inward with a wet, heavy crunch. The smoke is thick. It tastes of ash and old money. You know that taste. You have breathed it in for twenty years. You are a detective. You know the smell of a lie. You know the smell of a body. Right now, you only know the smell of your own home....
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