The Wistful Saga
The bell had a voice like a dying man’s cough. It hung in the steeple of St. Jude’s, a rusted iron tongue that tasted of blood and rain. I loved it. I loved the way it hung, still and heavy, against the gray sky. I loved the way the wind pulled at the rope, a thin, fraying umbilical cord connecting the sky to the earth. I was ten years old. The town of Oakhaven was a place of soot and steam, a...
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