The Faded River

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The Faded River

The ink had begun to fade before I was even finished writing the first sentence, a slow bleeding away into the blue veins of my skin that the court physicians called a divine sign and I knew to be a terminal erosion. I sat in the high-backed chair of the Minister’s office, the air thick with the scent of coal dust and old paper, and watched the letters of my name dissolve on the parchment...

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